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Colloquium: Alexis Dennis, UNC Sociology Odum Award Winner

Racial Differences in the Influence of Socioeconomic Resources on Depressive Symptomatology across the Early Life Course. Prior scholarship documents that having more socioeconomic resources is associated with better mental health. Yet, accumulating work shows that Black Americans do not consistently … Read more

Rebecca Kreitzer: Unplanning Pregnancy: The Politics of Contraception Deserts

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

On September 17, 2021, Rebecca Kreitzer, Associate Professor of Public Policy and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "Unplanning Pregnancy: The Politics of Contraception Deserts" as part of … Read more

Thomas McDade: Biosocial 2.0: Future directions for research at the interface of the biological and social sciences

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

On October 1, 2021, Thom McDade, a biological anthropologist and the Director of the Laboratory for Human Biology Research at Northwestern University, will present "Biosocial 2.0:  Future directions for research at the interface of the biological and social sciences" as … Read more

Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson and Peter Fallesen: Longer lives, Later Births: Generational Overlap in Denmark and the U.S.

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

On October 8, 2021, Marcy Carlson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Peter Fallesen (Rockwool Foundation and Stockholm University) will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Carlson’s primary research interests … Read more

Yamnia I. Cortés: Women’s reproductive health across the life course: A marker for cardiovascular disease risk in later life?

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

On October 15, 2021, Yamnia I. Cortés, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing, Health Disparities, Women’s Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "Women’s reproductive health across the life course: A marker for cardiovascular disease risk … Read more

Ashu Handa: Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP)

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

On November 12, 2021, Ashu Handa, the Lawrence I. Gilbert Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, will present his study results from Malawi as part of the … Read more