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Winners Selected for UNC Creativity Hubs Inaugural Awards
May 15, 2018Carolina Research Teams Span Disciplines to Fight Obesity, Advance Water Purification Published by UNC Research. UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative, a component of the Carolina Blueprint for Next strategic framework, has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to … Read more
CPC Fellows Popkin, Ng & Taillie funded to evaluate the implications of policies on food purchasing patterns, diets, & health
April 9, 2018Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile … Read more
Six new Faculty Fellows elected to the Carolina Population Center: Aiello, Albrecht, Gilleskie, Hummer, Ifatunji, Shanahan
May 19, 2015The core of the Carolina Population Center is the Faculty Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who conduct population research, teach population-relevant classes, and mentor students who are preparing to research population issues. In 2014, six new Faculty Fellows were elected: … Read more
CPC Faculty Fellow Paul Voss honored with the Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America
April 19, 2013Paul R. Voss received the prestigious Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America on April 12th at its Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Robert J. Lapham Award “recognizes members of PAA who contributed to the … Read more
Meet the recently elected Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows: S. Philip Morgan, Lauren Persha, Liana Richardson, Kavita Singh, and Colin West
January 2, 2013The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected five UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program. The Fellows are CPC’s permanent and vital core, and the center devotes its resources to facilitating their research. Currently, there are 63 Fellows … Read more
CPC Fellow Amy Herring receives APHA’s Mortimer Spiegelman Award
November 18, 2012Professor Amy H. Herring accepted the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association’s Statistics Section on Tuesday, Oct. 30th at the organization’s Annual Meeting. The award honors her outstanding achievements as a public health biostatistician under age 40. … Read more
UNC Epidemiology Professor Jim Thomas to be Director of UNC’s largest project
November 8, 2012James C. “Jim” Thomas, Ph.D., has been appointed the new Director of MEASURE Evaluation. In 2008, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded up to $181 million for the 6-year Project, which remains the largest award ever received … Read more
New Faculty Fellow profile: Clark Gray, geographer
October 18, 2011The Carolina Population Center and UNC-Chapel Hill were entwined with Clark Gray’s history long before he was named a CPC Faculty Fellow earlier this year. Gray received both his B.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Geography from UNC-CH and was … Read more
Family and community-based support systems critical to better mental health for Latino immigrants
August 18, 2011Of the United States’ population growth over the last decade, 56 percent can be attributed to its Latino population. Though many of these individuals are born in the United States, migration still accounts for a large portion of the growing … Read more
Interdisciplinary study in South Africa examines whether paying girls to attend school reduces their risk of acquiring HIV
January 18, 2011Of all the countries in the world, South Africa has the most people living with HIV. Even more than China or India with much larger population sizes. Among the nearly 50 million people living in South Africa, the current HIV … Read more