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Study: What is social media’s impact on college students’ mental health?
July 3, 2024The Covid-19 pandemic had an unprecedented effect on college students’ mental health: symptoms like anxiety and major depression in young adults ages 18-25 increased significantly compared to before the pandemic. A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … Read more

Senior Researcher in International Migration and/or Immigrant Integration at NIDI (The Hague, Netherlands)
June 24, 2024New Data Release from Add Health
June 24, 2024The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. Wave V Contextual Despair This contextual data set focuses on the social, political, and resource environment of Add Health respondents at the tract, county, and state level that are … Read more

Study: Hiring pressures to diversify influencing patterns of discrimination in unexpected ways
June 3, 2024In 2004, a pair of economists published a landmark study to measure discrimination in the labor market. In the study, the researchers applied to real job openings with fictitious applicants but change the applicant names to reflect a different gender or … Read more

National Academy of Sciences elects Arne Kalleberg
May 20, 2024On April 30, the academy announced the election of 120 new members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors … Read more

Understanding Pathways from Implementation to Sustainment: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Analysis of Promising Practices in the VHA
April 22, 2024April 2024 QMLC newsletter
Postdoctoral opportunity measurement structural racism NIH funded grant
April 22, 2024Please find below an exciting opportunity at University of Maryland for a postdoctoral fellow interested in working on a newly awarded NIH R01. The work is related to the measurement of structural racism and health inequalities. This time, we are … Read more
Senate bill introduced based on research of Global Food Research Program
April 22, 2024Senators Sanders (I-VT) and Booker (D-NJ) introduced a Senate bill on childhood diabetes that was based on research from the UNC Global Food Research Program as well as Lindsey Smith Taillie’s testimony in the Senate last December. Taillie is a … Read more
CPC at PAA 2024
April 10, 2024The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be April 17-20, 2024 in Columbus, OH. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, CPC external faculty affiliates, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, staff members and … Read more

Gemayel receives Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
April 8, 2024Predoctoral Trainee Georgina Gemayel received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award. Gemayel is a MA/doctoral student in the department of Geography, advised by Clark Gray. Other recipients include Adriana Wisniewski (Biological Anthropology), advised by Amanda Thompson and Athena Owirodu, … Read more
