News

Faculty Fellow Justin Lessler was quoted in a Washington Post piece on the summer coronavirus surge.

The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected seven UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2021. There are now 78 faculty fellows who sit across 16 academic departments. Fenaba Addo, Public Policy Fenaba R. Addo is an … Read more

Elizabeth Frankenberg co-wrote a piece in The Conversation looking at what has been learned about recovering from the Boxing Day tsunami.

Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was interviewed in The New York Times in a piece about economist Emily Oster.

This piece was originally published by The Obesity Society. SILVER SPRING, Md.– Although Americans spend billions on them, published research shows a lack of strong evidence that dietary supplements and alternative therapies help adults lose weight, according to a new … Read more

The Carolina Population Center urges the UNC Board of Trustees to review and approve Nikole Hannah-Jones’ appointment as a tenured faculty member at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. We and many other faculty, students, staff, and alumni … Read more

Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was interviewed in The Chicago Tribune about COVID and summer 2021.

Carolina Demography’s recent work on the First in FAFSA School Tracker was cited in a recent article from BladenOnline.com They were also cited in the Greensboro News & Record for their analysis of college enrollment, and a recent N&O piece … Read more

Faculty Fellow Barry Popkin was interviewed in a piece about obesity and Mexico.

Faculty Fellow Jane Fruehwirth was featured in the Carolina Alumni Review for the research she conducted with Fellow Krista Perriera on depression and anxiety among first-year college students.