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New NIH requirement to use My NCBI’s “My Bibliography” instead of eRA Commons for bibliography management
June 28, 2010Jun 28, 2010 NIH recently announced a new requirement for Project Investigators and Program Directors related to their publications listed in eRA Commons. As of July 23, 2010, PIs and PDs are required to use the My Bibliography feature in … Read more
Duplin Times-Progress Sentinel features NIH officials’ visit to National Children’s Study offices in Duplin County, NC
June 28, 2010Jun 28, 2010 The Duplin Times-Progress Sentinel published a story about the visit of leaders from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the local operation of the National Children’s Study in Duplin County. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more