Predoctoral Trainee Mallory Wolfe Turner writes, “The business venture I have co-founded with Kirstie Moore, LocalRoots Compost, was selected as one of 15 $25,000 winners for the Victoria’s Secret Pink with Purpose Project. LocalRoots Compost leverages the combined buying power … Read more
A research highlights piece in Nature featured Yang Claire Yang and Kathleen Mullan Harris’ recent study examining obesity’s racially skewed rise.
Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was recently featured on CBS17 discussing vaccination rates in NC. Both Delamater and Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson were also interviewed for a piece in NC Health News about vaccine slow-downs.
Carolina Demography’s Rebecca Tippett was featured on All Things Considered in an interview about the 2020 Census count and deployed troops.
First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study is based on the experiences of 419 Carolina students, and reflects the … Read more
Alyssa LaFaro, Endeavors, Monday, April 12th, 2021 Graduate student Rachel Woodul spent two years researching what might happen to hospital capacity during a pandemic. When COVID-19 arrived, she compared what her model — and others’ — got wrong to improve how … Read more
Jess Stanford, Demographic Analyst with Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center, was featured on the Independent Insurance Agents of NC podcast discussing the soon-to-arrive 2020 Census data and what it’s likely to show in terms of our state’s growing … Read more
Carolina Demography’s report on vaccine hesitation in NC was featured in an April 21, 2021 piece on NC Health News entitled “Coronavirus Today – Apr. 21 — Most COVID restrictions to be lifted in June if two-thirds of adults are … Read more
Carolina Demography’s research on the educational attainment pipeline in NC was recently featured in a WRAL column by Mary Ann Wolf, the president and executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina.
April 5, 2021 COVID-19 has placed a disproportionate burden on communities of color, reflected in the higher rates of positive cases, long-term health effects and deaths. While public health leaders analyze and quantify these inequities, a group of UNC epidemiologists … Read more
