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Durham Herald-Sun announces new South Africa project led by CPC Fellow Pettifor
September 9, 2009Sep 9, 2009 Audrey Pettifor, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center, has begun work on a new project in South Africa that will evaluate whether paying girls to attend school will reduce their risk of infection with HIV.The Herald-Sun (Durham) published an announcement about this new project which is called Effects of Cash Transfer…
Washington Post story about religion and Facebook cites CPC study led by Fellows Brown and Pearce
September 2, 2009Sep 2, 2009 The Washington Post published a story about Facebook users' approach to the question about religious views in the profile setting. The article quotes Piotr Bobkowski, a graduate research assistant at the Carolina Population Center, who is working on a study about youth and religious expression on social networking sites such as Facebook…
CPC release: UNC receives $2.7 million NIH grant to determine whether paying girls to attend school reduces HIV risk
August 27, 2009Aug 27, 2009 UNC News issued a release to the media about this new study: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2818/107/The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of using monetary incentives and community mobilization to prevent young women in South Africa from…
SELF magazine and CPC Fellow Popkin create “What’s Your Weight Fate?” quiz
August 25, 2009Aug 25, 2009 The August 2009 issue of SELF magazine features a story about weight control and has an accompanying quiz called "What's Your Weight Fate?" The story cites research by Barry Popkin, CPC Fellow and Carla Steel Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill. Here is an excerpt from the article: It…
CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen cited in Newsweek story about multi-generational households
August 20, 2009Aug 20, 2009 The recent issue of Newsweek cites research by Carolina Population Center Fellow Philip N. Cohen about multi-generational households. Cohen is also an associate professor of sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. The story, You Will Be a Parent to Your Parents, is available at http://www.newsweek.com/id/212148. Excerpt from the story: Philip Cohen, of the University…
‘Food is the new tobacco’ column discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s book ‘The World is Fat’
August 10, 2009Aug 10, 2009 An editorial column in The Garner-News that says food is the new tobacco discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin's new book, "The World is Fat," linking the addiction to tobacco to the addiction to fatty foods as they destroy our health in similar ways. "Increasingly the high caloric liquids and food we consume…
CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry cited in MSNBC article
August 10, 2009Aug 10, 2009 CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry and his 1970 study on birth rates after one-night events were recently cited in a MSNBC article. The article discusses the myth of a baby boom after President Obama's election and other dramatic events, such as a snowstorm or blackout.According to the article,…
TIME magazine features CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen in “Must Read” article
June 29, 2009Jun 29, 2009 CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen and her study on increased weight gain in couples who live together will be featured in TIME magazine's July 6th edition and is on the front page of Time.com as a "Must Read" article. Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D., an associate professor of nutrition at UNC, said that "married individuals are…
Research on weight gain in couples by CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen mentioned on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
June 22, 2009Jun 22, 2009 CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen, Ph. D., an associate professor of nutrition at UNC, and her research on increased weight gain in couples who live together were featured on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a weekly comedy news-quiz program. The show, which was taped in UNC's Memorial Hall, ran this past weekend.…
Pregnancy guidelines co-author Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a CPC Fellow, mentioned in Associated Press article
June 16, 2009Jun 16, 2009 An article recently published by the Associated Press reports new pregnancy guidelines from the Institute of Medicine for how much weight women should gain during their pregnancy. CPC Fellow Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, an associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at UNC, is quoted in the article and is co-author of the…