Carolina Population Center

University Research Week: Ted Mouw
2025-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Ted Mouw will give a presentation as part of University Research Week.
Topic: Using UNC’s Research Data Center to analyze local demographic micro data: An example using post-hurricane migration patterns
Ted Mouw is a sociologist who studies labor markets, immigration, and social networks. His current research involves the mobility of low-wage workers, the economic incorporation of immigrants, and methods to collect samples from rare or hidden populations using social networks.
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Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Kelly Giovanello
2025-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Kelly Giovanello will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Ultra-High Resolution Neuroimaging of Hippocampal Subfields in Healthy Aging
Kelly Giovanello is the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Arts and Sciences. The senior associate dean for research and innovation is a member of the dean’s senior leadership team and works closely with the senior associate deans in the College and with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovate Carolina, the UNC Institute for Convergent Science and other units throughout the University to support College faculty and Carolina’s research mission as an R1 university. This position serves all parts of the College, including the natural sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Sarah Petry
2025-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Sarah Petry will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: The Years Before Medicare: Expected Health Insurance Transitions
Sarah Petry is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Science Training Program at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sarah received her PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in Sociology from Duke University in 2023. Sarah is a mixed-methods demographer specializing in policy determinants of health and wellbeing across the life course. Her research investigates how state-level health and social policies replicate, worsen, or alleviate health inequities from birth until death, particularly for marginalized populations in the US. Her work has been published in journals including Social Policy and Administration, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, and Public Administration Review.

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Ross Boyce
2025-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Ross Boyce will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Without an ark: baseline demographics of residents living in a flood-prone area of rural western Uganda
Dr. Boyce’s research interests include the epidemiology and control of vector-borne diseases both in the United States and internationally (Uganda).
Dr. Ross Boyce is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Webinar on Creating Visual Abstracts
2025-11-12 14:30 - 15:30 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
CPC Communication Specialist Grayson Mendenhall will give a presentation on how to create a visual abstract for a research article from 2:30-3:30 p.m. on November 12 in Carolina Square 2002 and via Zoom.
Visual Abstracts are summaries of the information usually found in the abstract portion of a journal article. This workshop is open to faculty, staff, trainees, and external affiliates.
Zoom link

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Jimi Adams
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00
University of South Carolina Professor Jimi Adams will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Multiplex Closure in Adolescent Romantic and Friendship Networks.
Adams studies how networks constrain or promote the diffusion of information and/or diseases through populations. Much of this work has focused on HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 among populations in the US and Sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, his work has focused more on the integrative patterns and processes in problem-focused areas of science that draw from many academic disciplines (e.g., HIV/AIDS, demography, the environment). In addition, his work entails a focus on using social network theory to improve strategies used in the design and implementation of primary data collection projects.

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Neil O’Brian
2025-11-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
University of North Carolina Assistant Professor of Political Science Neil O’Brian will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Partisan Prescriptions: Polarization of Trust and Health Outcomes
O’Brian’s research agenda focuses on political polarization ranging from its root causes in the 20th century to its material impacts on individuals’ welfare and experiences in the contemporary era.

Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health Launch Event
2026-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Rafiuddin Najam
2026-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Rafiuddin Najam will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: TBD

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Vida Maralani
2026-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Vida Maralani will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Does Education Equalize? Racial Differences in Breastfeeding by Education from 1930 to 2015

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Rui Jie Peng
2026-02-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Rui Jie Peng will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: The Other Side of Migration: How Qiang Women Reproduce Migration from China’s Margins

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Kate Harwood
2026-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Kate Harwood will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Forces of Change in Rental Housing: Implications for Tenants and Policy

Biosocial Symposium and Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Naomi N. Duke
2026-02-20 12:00 - 13:00
Naomi N. Duke will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series and Biosocial Symposium.
Topic: From Parent to Child: Intergenerational Patterns in Chronic Disease Outcomes

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Misa Graff
2026-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Misa Graff will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series and Biosocial Symposium.
Topic: Multi-Omics of Aging Across the Life Course in the Border Health Research Cohort.

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Alexis Dennis
2026-03-06 12:00 - 13:00
Alexis Dennis will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Colorblind Data, Racialized Outcomes: Urban Segregation, Health Inequality, and the Limits of Population Data in Canada

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Bussarawan "Puk" Teerawichitchainan
2026-03-27 12:00 - 13:00
Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: Aging with Limited Kin: Childlessness and Care Arrangements in Singapore and Thailand

J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture Series: Eileen Crimmins
2026-04-09 15:30 - 17:00 | Dey Hall 238
Eileen Cummins will present the 2026 J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture in Dey Hall’s Toy Lounge (Dey 238).
Topic: Hallmarks of Aging from Geroscience, Medical Science, and Social Science

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
2026-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: County-Level Immigration Policy Contexts and Health & Wellbeing Across Race, Nativity, and Citizenship

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Emilio Parrado
2026-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Emilio Parrado will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Topic: The Great Dispersion: Geography, Diversity, and Opportunity among Latinos in the United States
