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

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

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

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

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

Jul 18, 2008 “A record number of babies were born in the USA in 2007, according to early federal data released Wednesday that some demographers say could signal an impending baby ‘boomlet’…. “But family demographer Ronald Rindfuss of the University … Read more

Jul 15, 2008 “Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. “One gene called MAOA that … Read more

Jul 9, 2008 CPC Fellow Barry Popkin‘s study on the rise of obesity in China appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The study uses data from the China Nutrition and Health Study. “In a development with implications for China’s work … Read more

Jun 30, 2008 CPC Fellow and journalism professor Jane Brown discusses the “Juno Effect” on adolescents’ sexual behavior in an interview on NPR. To read a summary or to find a link to listen to the interview, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91906103 … Read more

Jun 26, 2008 The summer workshop Integrating Biomarkers in Population-Based Research was successfully conducted June 2-6.  The course was developed under an NIH R25 training grant to CPC and taught by CPC’s Deputy Director for Research Services Nancy Dole and … Read more