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Kathleen Mullan Harris awarded Population Association of America’s Irene B. Taeuber Award
April 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019 Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD, is the first Faculty Fellow at Carolina Population Center to receive the Population Association of America’s Irene B. Taeuber Award in “recognition of an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study … Read more
CPC at PAA 2019
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 10-13 at the JW Marriott Austin. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff … Read more
New website launched for exploring global tuberculosis (TB) data
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC-The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is launching a new tuberculosis (TB) data hub today in Washington, DC. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is playing … Read more
The Depths of Despair among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 The American Journal of Public Health has issued a publication by Carolina Population Center researchers entitled “The Depths of Despair among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife.” Utilizing Add Health Wave V data, this research explores health indicators such … Read more
CPC Scholar Gutierrez awarded RSF grant: The ACA and the Demography of the U.S. Criminal Justice Population
March 11, 2019The Russell Sage Foundation has awarded a grant entitled “The ACA and the Demography of the U.S. Criminal Justice Population” to CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Carmen Gutierrez. Over the course of its two years of funding, the grant will support Gutierrez … Read more
North Carolina’s Leaky Educational Pipeline: Report maps NC postsecondary public education pipeline, identifies at-risk groups
February 28, 2019UNC release issued on February 28, 2019 (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Feb. 28, 2019) – The fastest-growing jobs in North Carolina now require more education. A new report from Carolina Demography and the John M. Belk Endowment examines North Carolina … Read more
North Carolina’s Leaky Educational Pipeline: Report maps NC postsecondary public education pipeline, identifies at-risk groups
February 28, 2019Feb 28, 2019 New demographic report will help guide the state’s path forward in improving education attainment in order to fill need for highly trained workforce UNC release issued on February 28, 2019 (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Feb. 28, 2019) … Read more
CPC Fellow Yong Cai in NYT: “China Isn’t Having Enough Babies”
February 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019 Sociologists Yong Cai and Wang Feng ask whether China can keep up with its aging population given the state’s steadily and rapidly declining birthrate since the late 1960s. “The authorities had predicted that easing and then abolishing … Read more
Feb 27: Community Voices Forum
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 2019 Wednesday, Feb 27th, News & Observer will host a community a forum – “Hello, neighbor!” – from 7-8:30pm. The forum’s panel of demographers and planners, including Rebecca Tippett, PhD, Director of Carolina Demography, will discuss who is … Read more
Trainee Hackathon Spring 2019
February 15, 2019Feb 15, 2019 On Friday, February 8th, the Carolina Population Center hosted a Hackathon for pre- and postdoctoral scholars to compete in designing a research project proposal. The four teams, each comprised of four trainees from different disciplines and at … Read more