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T32 funded Postdoctoral Position in Population Science at the Carolina Population Center
October 3, 2025The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population science training program. The overall goal of the program is to create a … Read more
Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria
October 1, 2025This article was originally published on the National Public Radio website. By Jonathan Lambert Babies may soon join soldiers in the fight to ward off malaria. For years, the U.S. military has treated uniforms with insecticide to repel mosquitoes and … Read more
Low Birth Rates Are Here To Stay—Until Our Economy Works for Everyone | Opinion
September 17, 2025This article originally appeared in Newsweek on September 17, 2025 By Karen Benjamin Guzzo Director, Carolina Population Center A “Manhattan Project” to raise birth rates? That’s the latest effort from the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025. Despite evidence … Read more
CPC Fellow Ken Bollen Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
May 2, 2025Ken Bollen, Carolina Population Center Fellow and Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill, for his recent election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). His research focuses … Read more
What’s Behind the ‘Pronatalist’ Movement to Boost the Birth Rate? An Interview with CPC Director Karen Guzzo
May 2, 2025This article originally appeared on North Carolina Public Radio on April 30, 2025 By Tonya Mosley TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. Have more babies, or civilization dies. That’s the rallying cry behind a once fringe … Read more
CPC Director Karen Benjamin Guzzo says most people in the U.S. want kids but lack societal support to meet their ideal parenting vision
April 16, 2025The following episode of Consider This from National Public Radio originally aired on April 7, 2025. You can hear the original recording at npr.org. The transcript of the episode is below. —— ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Elon Musk is not shy about … Read more
Study Reveals Persistent Mental Health Struggles Among College Freshmen During COVID-19 Pandemic
March 19, 2025By Grayson Mendenhall Communication Specialist As the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2023 becomes a distant memory, its enduring impact on the mental health of university students remains a significant concern. A recent study of first-year college students at UNC sheds new … Read more
CPC Fellow Amanda Thompson named director of the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies
February 17, 2025Carolina Population Center Fellow Amanda Thompson has been named director of the Center for Galapagos Studies (CGS). With over a decade of experience working in the Galápagos Islands, she has served as interim director of the center since 2023. She … Read more
CPC Fellow Peter Coclanis: Canada and Greenland aren’t likely to join the US anytime soon – but ‘GrAmeriCa’ is a revealing thought experiment
February 5, 2025This article originally appeared in The Conversation on Jan. 28, 2025 By Peter Coclanis For some time now, pundits have been debating whether to take Donald Trump “seriously” or “literally,” as the clever binary coined by journalist Salena Zito in … Read more
