Jun 30, 2010 CPC Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris will speak at a Congressional Briefing entitled “Recession and Recovery: How are Americans Affected?” on Monday, July 12, 2010. The briefing will focus on how the nation’s most vulnerable populations are affected … Read more

Jun 28, 2010 NIH recently announced a new requirement for Project Investigators and Program Directors related to their publications listed in eRA Commons. As of July 23, 2010, PIs and PDs are required to use the My Bibliography feature in … Read more

Jun 28, 2010 The Duplin Times-Progress Sentinel published a story about the visit of leaders from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the local operation of the National Children’s Study in Duplin County. … Read more

Jun 2, 2010 Carolina Population Center’s blog, CPC World, includes reports by CPC researchers as they travel near and far to collect data for their studies, report on the progress or findings of their research, attend conferences and meetings, and … Read more

May 21, 2010 CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Biostatistics Amy H. Herring received a prestigious teaching award from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Herring was awarded the McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching which “recognizes career-long excellence … Read more

China is famous for its one-child policy. Thirty years ago, most Chinese women gave birth to two to three children, already one of the lowest among developing countries. In its first decade of chaotic implementation, China’s fertility stayed at a … Read more

Apr 26, 2010 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Amy H. Herring has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ASA is the scholarly and education association for statisticians and quantitative scientists and currently has 18,000 members … Read more

Apr 21, 2010 Wiley-Blackwell issued a news release today about an article by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Glen H. Elder, Jr. The article, Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military, appears in the June 2010 issue of Social Science Quarterly, which … Read more

Mar 30, 2010 Glen H. Elder, Jr., a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and Research Professor of Sociology, was interviewed by The Atlantic for a story about the current environment of high unemployment and how it may impact today’s young … Read more

Mar 30, 2010 The Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been awarded to Dr. Christine Bachrach, renowned population researcher and former Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The … Read more