May 20, 2015 Shoshana Goldberg was awarded a blue ribbon for her poster presentation at the 2015 Population Association of America Annual Meeting on May 2nd. Goldberg’s poster, “Does It Really ‘Get Better’? Suicide Attempts in Two Cohorts of Sexual … Read more

The core of the Carolina Population Center is the Faculty Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who conduct population research, teach population-relevant classes, and mentor students who are preparing to research population issues. In 2014, six new Faculty Fellows were elected: … Read more

May 5, 2015 N. Krishnan Namboodiri died in April 2015. Namboodiri was a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow from 1977 to 1985 and was among the UNC faculty members who were affiliated with CPC when it was formed in 1966. … Read more

Carolina Population Center’s researchers have decades of experience collecting, analyzing, sharing, and archiving big data sets of population research studies. CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin is one of several CPC Fellows who are at the forefront of research efforts to … Read more

Feb 4, 2015 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 30-May 2, 2015 at the Hilton San Diego Bay Front.  Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC faculty fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and … Read more

Jan 8, 2015 CPC Faculty Fellow Kenneth A. Bollen now has a joint appointment in UNC’s Department of Psychology and the Department of Sociology. He is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Sociology. The joint appointment became … Read more

Jan 5, 2015 CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin is among the list of Highly Cited Researchers developed by Thomsen-Reuters. The list is posted here. The publisher says “Highly Cited Researchers 2014 represents some of world’s leading scientific minds. Over three … Read more

Jan 5, 2015 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health announced that CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen has been awarded a Gillings Innovation Laboratory. The announcement was included in its “2014 in review” email which was sent to the School’s faculty … Read more

Dec 22, 2014 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows Pamela Jagger and Sudhanshu Handa are collaborating on research projects to promote and evaluate the shift from using wood and charcoal for cooking fuel to using energy-efficient cookstoves that emit fewer toxins. … Read more

Dec 4, 2014 Jaroslav F. (Jerry) Hulka, MD, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology in the UNC School of Medicine and of maternal and child health at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, died Nov. 24. He was 84. … Read more