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CPC Trainee Tyson Brown’s research on childless women and mothers appears in news
May 14, 2007May 14, 2007 For one day each year, motherhood brings flowers, cards and Sunday brunches, but a new University of Florida study asks, how important is it for women's happiness in midlife whether and when they had children? ... Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox worked on the study with Amy Pienta, a University of Michigan sociologist, and Tyson…
CPC Fellow Philip Cohen quoted in news
May 11, 2007May 11, 2007 Great news, couples! You're doing better than ever! ...Philip Cohen , a sociology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, said it helps that many weddings involve older participants than in years past. That's a chief predictor of the success of marriages, along with income and education levels, he said. To read the entire article,…
CPC Fellow Cohen Awarded NSF Funding for Management Matters Project
May 4, 2007May 4, 2007 Philip N. Cohen, CPC Fellow and UNC Associate Professor of Sociology, has been awarded funding for the project Management Matters: Consequences of Managerial Composition. This project will examine the association between managerial composition and inequality among nonmanagerial workers. Funded by the National Science Foundation through March 2008, this will be the first…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on energy beverages in News & Observer
April 27, 2007Apr 27, 2007 Tim McCullen drinks his morning pick-me-up at 3 p.m. Instead of black coffee, McCullen, who tends bar at The Goat in Raleigh, downs a couple of effect brand energy drinks when he reports for a shift that doesn't end till the wee hours. ..."We don't really have any sense of how it…
CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman’s research appears in news
April 26, 2007Apr 26, 2007 High blood levels of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids, found in fish oil, may help preserve thinking ability in the elderly, according to the findings of two studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ...In the second study, which involved 2,251 older individuals, [former CPC trainee] Dr. May A. Beydoun…
CPC Fellow Cohen Served as Expert Witness to US Senate Committee
April 10, 2007Apr 10, 2007 CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen was one of several expert witnesses to testify at a full committee hearing of the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at a hearing on "Closing the Gap: Equal Pay for Women Workers." The committee, chaired by Ted Kennedy, is considering gender equity bills proposed…
CPC Fellow Johnson Discusses Role of Arkansas’ Undocumented Immigrants as Workers
April 9, 2007Apr 9, 2007 Most of those companies would probably go out of business or those jobs would be shifted offshore, because that's their competitiveness factor. Those firms are competing in a global marketplace," said Jim Johnson, a professor at the University of North Carolina who contributed to the study on Arkansas' immigrant population. "You can…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s research on beverages discussed in New York Times
March 28, 2007Mar 28, 2007 Last year, with the support of the Unilever Health Institute in the Netherlands (Unilever owns Lipton Tea), a panel of experts on nutrition and health published a "Beverage Guidance System" in hopes of getting people to stop drinking their calories when those calories contribute little or nothing to their health and may…
CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss’s research on Norwegian mothers appears in NY Times Magazine
March 5, 2007Mar 5, 2007 To the dismay of pundits and politicians alike, women in industrialized countries and elsewhere have been bearing fewer and fewer children.... According to Ronald Rindfuss, a sociologist, Norwegian women who live in towns with more day-care slots available have more children and become mothers earlier. The timing of births is important, because…
CPC Fellow Siega-Riz comments on the value of breakfast
March 2, 2007Mar 2, 2007 It may be considered the most important meal of the day, but in the daily morning fire drill of getting out the door on time, breakfast can easily become an afterthought. ... "You should be eating something for breakfast, there's no question about it. Your body needs it in order to be…