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Recap: Demography Daze 2024
September 17, 2024The Carolina-Duke rivalry is arguably one of the greatest, but when it comes to the population sciences, faculty are often close research collaborators and good friends. This was showcased September 6, 2024 as the Carolina Population Center (CPC) hosted friends … Read more
Meet the Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows elected in 2024
July 26, 2024The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected nine UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2024. Kavita Arora, School of Medicine (Obstetrics/Gynecology) Dr. Kavita Shah Arora is an Associate Professor with Tenure and the Division Director for … Read more
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
New 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
Clark Gray paper receives 2023 IPUMS Research Award
April 8, 2024Clark Gray and Maia Call received the 2023 IPUMS Research Award in the category of published research using IPUMS Spatial data. Their paper, “Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics” was published in Population and Environment … Read more