Oct 30, 2017 In November, UNC’s Carolina Population Center moves to its new home at Carolina Square, the former location of University Square. For the first time since its earliest years, CPC will be housed under a single roof, uniting … Read more
How many of you know that Tom Heath has completed two marathons during his career at CPC? One was a 26.2-mile race in 2000 and the other, as he approaches retirement from UNC, is a 26(+2)-year run at the Carolina … Read more
Oct 12, 2017 Carolyn Tucker Halpern was interviewed by Frank Stasio, host of WUNC’s The State of Things about the historic low teen birth rate in North Carolina. Halpern is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and is a UNC … Read more
Sep 29, 2017 A new award co-funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities will explore how sexual orientation/gender identity and socioeconomic status intersect and contribute to … Read more
Sep 25, 2017 UNC spotlights Rebecca Tippett’s knowledge and expertise about recent population changes in North Carolina. Tippett is the Director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center. Excerpt: “North Carolina is still adding about 100,000 new residents every … Read more
Sep 18, 2017 The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected five UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program. The Fellows are CPC’s permanent and vital core, and the center devotes its resources to facilitating their research. Currently, there … Read more
Aug 29, 2017 The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $4.8 million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to help alleviate energy poverty in Southern Africa. Energy poverty is the lack of access to modern energy … Read more
Aug 28, 2017 Research in Kenya by MEASURE Evaluation shows that health providers can work together to improve HIV care without any need for new services People living with HIV have many clinical, nutritional, and social needs, all of which … Read more
Aug 22, 2017 UNC College of Arts and Sciences Faculty and Carolina Population Center Fellows Pam Jagger (Public Policy/CEE), Mike Emch (Geography) and Barbara Entwisle (Sociology) have been awarded a US$4.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation Partnerships in … Read more
Aug 9, 2017 Ashu Handa’s research in Zambia is featured on NPR in a story describing the impact of unconditional cash transfers in Zambian people’s lives. Handa is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow. Cash Aid Could Solve Poverty – … Read more
