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Our blog CPC World features CPC Fellow Pearce while doing research in Nepal
June 2, 2010Jun 2, 2010 Carolina Population Center's blog, CPC World, includes reports by CPC researchers as they travel near and far to collect data for their studies, report on the progress or findings of their research, attend conferences and meetings, and collaborate with colleagues in other countries. Currently, CPC Fellow Lisa Pearce and intern Taylor Hargrove…
CPC Fellow Herring receives the McGavran Award for excellence in teaching
May 21, 2010May 21, 2010 CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Biostatistics Amy H. Herring received a prestigious teaching award from UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Herring was awarded the McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching which "recognizes career-long excellence in teaching by a faculty member in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health."…
Economic and cultural factors lead to China’s low fertility rate, more so than government’s one-child policy
May 18, 2010China is famous for its one-child policy. Thirty years ago, most Chinese women gave birth to two to three children, already one of the lowest among developing countries. In its first decade of chaotic implementation, China's fertility stayed at a level of more than two children per woman, followed by an accelerated drop in fertility…
CPC Fellow Herring elected as American Statistical Association Fellow
April 26, 2010Apr 26, 2010 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Amy H. Herring has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ASA is the scholarly and education association for statisticians and quantitative scientists and currently has 18,000 members worldwide. Herring is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill. The UNC Gillings School of…
Wiley-Blackwell features CPC Fellow Elder’s research about why young men join the U.S. military
April 21, 2010Apr 21, 2010 Wiley-Blackwell issued a news release today about an article by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Glen H. Elder, Jr. The article, Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military, appears in the June 2010 issue of Social Science Quarterly, which is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The article was co-authored by CPC postdoctoral scholar Lin Wang, former…
CPC Fellow Elder’s research about joblessness and the life course discussed in The Atlantic
March 30, 2010Mar 30, 2010 Glen H. Elder, Jr., a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and Research Professor of Sociology, was interviewed by The Atlantic for a story about the current environment of high unemployment and how it may impact today's young adults as they age. Excerpt: Forty years ago, Glen Elder, a sociologist at the University…
Dr. Bachrach selected to be Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at UNC and Duke University, 2010-2011
March 30, 2010Mar 30, 2010 The Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been awarded to Dr. Christine Bachrach, renowned population researcher and former Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Keohane professorship was established to promote collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University by enhancing…
CPC studies link neighborhood characteristics to obesity, other health outcomes
March 18, 2010Obesity is one of the most pressing global population health issues, and importantly one that affects race/ethnic minorities and those of low socioeconomic status disproportionately. Each day, we learn more and more about the complex relationships between biologic, socioeconomic, demographic, environmental and cultural factors operating over the course of a person’s life that ultimately influence…
CPC Fellow Bollen elected chair of AAAS section for the social sciences
March 15, 2010Mar 15, 2010 Kenneth A. Bollen has been elected chair of the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This is the primary section for the social sciences at AAAS. Bollen is a CPC Fellow and is Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Professor of Sociology at UNC-Chapel…
CPC researchers find that higher fast food prices lead to lower weight and diabetes risk
March 10, 2010Mar 10, 2010 A new study shows both weight and diabetes risk fell for people in communities where fast food prices increased. "This study gives us strong scientific evidence that price policies, including taxes, could actually be effective at helping control obesity and the resulting chronic diseases, like diabetes," senior author Barry M. Popkin said.…