UNC and N.C. roles expanded in landmark children’s health and development study
Oct 3, 2008 UNC News Release Available at uncnews.unc.edu Friday, October 03, 2008 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has added three more areas of North Carolina and is expanding the role played by the University of North Carolina at … Read more
Perreira, CPC Fellow, receives funding to study dietary patterns and obesity risk among Latino infants and toddlers in NC
Sep 30, 2008 Krista M. Perreira, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), has received funding for the study “Dietary Patterns and Obesity Risk among Latino Infants and Toddlers … Read more
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin featured in Voice of America news item on obesity
Sep 25, 2008 CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses obesity trends and solutions in this Voice of America piece. “‘In the last 50 to 60 years, in the post world war era, in both the U.S. and the other high-income countries, … Read more
CPC Fellow Mouw awarded NSF funding to study immigration and the dynamics of labor market adjustment
Sep 23, 2008 Ted Mouw, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received funding from the National Science Foundation to begin work on the study “Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor … Read more
CPC Fellow Adair receives funding from NIH to study origins of adult disease risk factors
Sep 23, 2008 Linda S. Adair, CPC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), was awarded funding for the project “Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors.” … Read more
Time Magazine quotes CPC Fellow Jane Brown in report on adolescent girls’ sexuality
Sep 15, 2008 “Unless you’re an adolescent male, you have already asked yourself this question, perhaps in the past few days: Is there something wrong with teen girls? …According to Jane Brown, a journalism professor at the University of North … Read more
News & Observer reports on CPC’s record MEASURE Evaluation award
Sep 11, 2008 The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported on Tuesday that the Carolina Population Center has received the largest grant in UNC’s history for its MEASURE Evaluation Project. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the … Read more
UNC receives record $181 million grant to evaluate health, poverty and gender programs worldwide
Sep 8, 2008 UNC News Release Available at: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-receives-record-181-million-grant-to-evaluate-health-poverty-and-gender-programs-worldwide.html Monday, September 08, 2008 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill up to $181 million … Read more
CPC Fellow Jane Brown quoted in Newsweek story about Hollywood’s coverage of teen pregnancy
Aug 6, 2008 Jane Brown, CPC Fellow and Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, was interviewed by Newsweek in a story that explains that, though pregnant teenagers are appearing more often in TV shows, movies, and in magazines, the coverage … Read more
Chronicle of Higher Education covers ASA presidential address given by CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg
Aug 6, 2008 CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg presented the presidential address at the American Sociological Association’s 103rd Annual Meeting in Boston on August 2nd, 2008. Kalleberg, Professor of Sociology, spoke about the conference’s theme, Worlds of Work. The Chronicle of … Read more