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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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
CPC Fellow Jane Brown appears on CNN
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 2007 CNN’s interview with CPC Fellow Jane Brown is CNN’s “Most Popular Video.” In it, Jane discusses her book Media, Sex and the Adolescent. To see the video, click here: http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=876402546&pt=Y Some media outlets may require free user … Read more
CPC Fellow Darity comments on research on skin tone and earnings in Washington Post
January 30, 2007Jan 30, 2007 Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be discrimination, a researcher says. …William Darity Jr., an economics professor at the University of … Read more