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News features CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s research on eating fast food and BMI
January 18, 2007Jan 18, 2007 A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat. Among nearly 3,400 young adults participating in a long-term study, every additional fast food meal they consumed each week correlated with a substantial increase in body mass index (BMI), Dr. Barry M. Popkin of the University…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin named Chamblee distinguished professor of global nutrition
January 17, 2007Jan 17, 2007 Dr. Barry M. Popkin has been named the first Carla Smith Chamblee distinguished professor of global nutrition in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill effective Jan. 1. The professorship was endowed by the late Carl M. Smith to honor his daughter, Carla Smith Chamblee,…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin Comments on Caloric Beverages in the Washington Post
January 10, 2007Jan 10, 2007 When most people think about calories, they consider food, not drink. Yet beverages now account for about 20 percent of daily calories consumed by those 2 and older, according to Barry M. Popkin, director of the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "When did we start…
CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg Quoted in News Article about Minimum Wage
January 10, 2007Jan 10, 2007 Arne Kalleberg, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who specializes in economic equality, said that while the wage hike may be a financial hit for businesses, it may also make minimum wage jobs more respectable and increase productivity. "When employers can pay low wages, they create very bad…
CPC Fellow James Johnson Quoted in Charlotte Observer
December 28, 2006Dec 28, 2006 N.C. population surges into nation's top 10 Continuing waves of newcomers from the Northeast and other regions boosted both Carolinas in the ranks of the nation's most populous states in new U.S. Census Bureau data being released today. North Carolina passed New Jersey to become the nation's 10th most populated state. And…
CPC Fellow Harris Receives Funds to Study Parental Incarceration and Adolescent Health
December 18, 2006Dec 18, 2006 Kathleen Mullan Harris, CPC Fellow and Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC, has received funds from the American Bar Association to investigate parental incarceration as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Questionnaire items will be included in Add Health's Wave IV data collection, and…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin Quoted in NY Times Article on Changes in Portion Size
December 8, 2006Dec 8, 2006 Along with the American waistline, the American plate and portion size have grown too. A study at Rutgers University supports earlier research that people today eat bigger servings than they did 20 years ago. A 1994 informal survey found that the standard plate size in the restaurant industry grew in the early…
CPC Fellow Leslie Awarded NSF Funding for HSD Collaborative Research Project
December 7, 2006Dec 7, 2006 CPC Fellow and UNC Professor of Anthropology, Paul W. Leslie, has received funding for the project "HSD Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Parks as Agents of Change in Eastern and Southern Africa." This research project will examine the inter-relationship of livelihood diversification and social and environmental change outside protected areas in eastern and…
CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman Named Fulbright Scholar
November 27, 2006Nov 27, 2006 Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty - an epidemiologist studying adverse birth outcomes and a scholar of American cultural engagement with Islam - have been named 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholars. Dr. Jay Kaufman and Dr. Timothy Marr will travel to Chile and Cyprus, respectively, to lecture and conduct research, the…
CPC Fellow Glen Elder Comments on Children of the Depression in Gainesville Times
November 14, 2006Nov 14, 2006 Sociologist Glen Elder Jr., author of "Children of the Great Depression," said journalists wrote then of a lost generation. They had it wrong. "Resilience," Elder said recently, "was the central theme coming out of that period." To read the entire article, click here: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20061112/localnews/137122.shtml Some media outlets may require free user registration…