CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses global obesity in Scientific American
Jan 17, 2008 More people in developing countries are now overweight than hungry, says CPC Fellow Barry Popkin in the September 2007 issue of Scientific American (“The World is Fat,” Scientific American 297, no. 3: 88-95). More than 1.3 billion … Read more
CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss quoted in Washington Post about new report that U.S. fertility rate is at 35-year high
Dec 22, 2007 While being a mother who works outside the home is far from easy for many American women, many experts said the United States is in many ways more amenable to the practice than many other developed countries…”We … Read more
CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Kris Marsh appears as guest on WUNC’s The State of Things
Dec 20, 2007 For years, social science has defined the middle-class family as a married couple, typically with children. But a new study out of UNC-Chapel Hill challenges that definition, particularly for the African-American population. Host Frank Stasio gets an … Read more
CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Amy Burdette’s research on religious affiliation and marital fidelity appears in news
Dec 7, 2007 Where you worship – and whether you worship at all – could be connected to your likelihood of straying from your marriage vows. …”What matters the most is being involved in a religious organization,” says Amy Burdette, … Read more
CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss comments on the environmental impact of divorce in USA Today
Dec 5, 2007 Divorce isn’t green, says a study being published today…While divorce leads to smaller household size on average for a population, “it’s not just divorce,” says social demographer Ronald Rindfuss of the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on Thanksgiving weight gain in the news
Nov 27, 2007 This shouldn’t come as a surprise: Thanksgiving is not the green light to a six-week indulgence that precedes the waddle back to the gym Jan. 2…The holiday season that starts with Thanksgiving (or even Halloween) and ends … Read more
CPC Fellow Walsh Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from SEDAAG
Nov 21, 2007 Stephen J. Walsh, CPC Fellow and Professor of Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG). Walsh received the award on November 20th at the … Read more
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin and CPC GRA Kiyah Duffey’s research on high calorie beverages appears in N&O
Nov 21, 2007 It’s not just sugary sodas that are adding to the obesity crisis – it’s fruit drinks, alcohol and a combination of other high-calorie beverages, say CPC graduate research assistant Kiyah Duffey and CPC fellow Barry Popkin. The … Read more
CPC Fellow Entwisle Awarded NSF Funding to Study Marginal Populations and Environment in Thailand
Nov 14, 2007 Barbara Entwisle, CPC Director, CPC Fellow, and Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the research project “HSD: Marginality in a Marginal Environment: An Agent-Based Approach to Population-Environment … Read more
March of Dimes honors CPC Fellow Anna Maria Siega-Riz for work in maternal-fetal nutrition
Nov 6, 2007 Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D., R.D., associate professor in the departments of epidemiology and nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill‘s School of Public Health and CPC Fellow, has received the March of Dimes Agnes … Read more