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CPC Fellow Popkin honored with Chinese Nutrition Society award for contributions to nutrition in China
July 23, 2015Jul 23, 2015 Carolina Population Center Fellow Barry M. Popkin received the 1st award for significant foreign contributions in nutrition from the Chinese government. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement about Popkin’s award: Barry Popkin, PhD, … Read more
CPC launches additional searchable publications lists for its research projects
July 21, 2015Jul 21, 2015 The Carolina Population Center’s research projects generate data that are used by thousands of researchers and policy makers across the U.S. and throughout the world. The published products of this research help inform others about social, behavior, … Read more
Data talks. Pass it on.
July 1, 2015Jul 1, 2015 MEASURE Evaluation researchers recently attended the Measurement and Accountability for Results in Health Summit convened by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO). An increasing reliance on … Read more
CPC’s Summer 2015 Undergraduate Intern Research program begins Tuesday, May 26th
June 18, 2015Every summer, the Carolina Population Center welcomes undergraduate interns who learn about and conduct population research. To develop their research question and methodology, the interns work with CPC Fellows who are also UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members. A couple of the … Read more
Add Health Releases Codebook Explorer (ACE)
June 16, 2015Access the new Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) to search for questions administered in the In-School and In-Home Interviews Interested in browsing the Add Health In-School and In-Home interviews for questions related to a specific topic, or quickly discovering whether … Read more
CPC’s Summer 2015 Undergraduate Intern Research program begins Tuesday, May 26th
June 16, 2015Jun 16, 2015 Every summer, the Carolina Population Center welcomes undergraduate interns who learn about and conduct population research. To develop their research question and methodology, the interns work with CPC Fellows who are also UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members. A … Read more
Big Data and Important Questions: Population Health Studies in the United States, China, and the Philippines
May 27, 2015May 27, 2015 Carolina Population Center’s researchers have decades of experience collecting, analyzing, sharing, and archiving big data sets of population research studies. CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin is one of several CPC Fellows who are at the forefront of … Read more
CPC predoctoral trainee Shoshana Goldberg awarded a blue ribbon for her poster at the 2015 PAA conference
May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 Shoshana Goldberg was awarded a blue ribbon for her poster presentation at the 2015 Population Association of America Annual Meeting on May 2nd. Goldberg’s poster, “Does It Really ‘Get Better’? Suicide Attempts in Two Cohorts of Sexual … 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
Former CPC Fellow Namboodiri has died
May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 N. Krishnan Namboodiri died in April 2015. Namboodiri was a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow from 1977 to 1985 and was among the UNC faculty members who were affiliated with CPC when it was formed in 1966. … Read more