National Study of Youth and Religion Completes Data Collection for Second Wave of the Longitudinal Study
Jan 25, 2006 Data collection for the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) is now complete. This longitudinal extension of the NSYR is funded by a three-year $1,101,092 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded to … Read more
Add Health Study: Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood (NICHD Press Release)
Jan 25, 2006 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NIH News National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) http://www.nichd.nih.gov For Immediate Release January 11, 2006 CONTACTS: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller bockr@mail.nih.gov … Read more
CPC Weekly Seminar, Jan. 27: Note New Presentation Title
Jan 20, 2006 Dr. M.E. Hughes, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke University, will present “What Money Can Buy: Marriage, Material Aspirations, and Home Ownership in the United States” on Friday, January 27 from noon to 1 pm in Toy Lounge, … Read more
Findings from Adolescent Health Project Illustrate Increasing Health Risk from Teen Years to Adulthood
Jan 13, 2006 A study published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine offers new insights into race/ethnic disparities in leading health indicators. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Project (Add Health) indicate increasing health risk and … Read more
UNC is one of six sites nationwide to start study on environment’s effects on children; Duplin County to be UNC’s study location
Sep 29, 2005 The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as one of six institutions nationwide – and the only institution in the South – to kick … Read more
Kalsbeek Chair-Elect for ASA Section on Survey Research Methods
Sep 22, 2005 William Kalsbeek, CPC Fellow and Professor of Biostatistics, was recently elected chair-elect for the section on Survey Research Methods for the American Statistical Association at its national meeting. For information about the Survey Research Methds section, visit … Read more
CPC Fellow Popkin Awarded Grant from NIH
Sep 19, 2005 CPC Fellow and Professor of Nutrition, Barry Popkin has been awarded a 5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. “Diet, Activity, Obesity & the Built Environment Dynamics” is a longitudinal study … Read more
MacArthur Foundation Awards Grant to CPC Fellow Leslie
Sep 10, 2005 Paul Leslie, CPC Fellow and professor of anthropology, has been awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The 18-month study, entitled “Alternative Consequences of Migration for Land Use and Conservation in Northern Tanzania”, was co-awarded to Terrence … Read more
CPC Fellows Walsh and Bilsborrow Awarded Grant from NASA
Sep 7, 2005 NASA has awarded a grant to Stephen J. Walsh, CPC Fellow and and Professor of Geography, and to Richard E. Bilsborrow, CPC Fellow and Professor of Biostatistics, for a two-year study entitled “Multi-Agent Models of Land Cover/Land … Read more
Anna Maria Siega-Riz President-elect of SPER
Aug 12, 2005 Anna Maria Siega-Riz was elected president-elect of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (SPER) at their annual meeting in June. She will serve as president in 2006-2007 and will preside at the annual meeting in Boston … Read more