Apr 22, 2014 The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) announced the results of a major global study that could “upend conceptions of how forests, people interact.” CPC Fellow Pamela Jagger co-authored two of the five papers that are part … Read more

Apr 14, 2014 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Margaret E. Bentley was recently elected to the board of directors of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted an announcement about this honor … Read more

Mar 7, 2014 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held May 1-3, 2014 at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC faculty fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate … Read more

Mar 3, 2014 Linda Adair, PhD, nutrition professor at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the American Society of Nutrition’s Kellogg Prize for International Nutrition Research. The award, sponsored by the Kellogg Company, is given to a member … Read more

Jan 27, 2014 In October 2013, the Carolina Population Center launched a new service for communities throughout North Carolina. Called Carolina Demography, this program translates demographic data into specific, usable information about population change to inform decision making, planning, and … Read more

Two of fourteen Science and Technology Pioneers Prizes were awarded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Science and Technology to the MEASURE Evaluation project, implemented by the Carolina Population Center. The prize is awarded to … Read more

Dec 18, 2013 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health issued an announcement about a new study by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows Amy Herring, Penny Gordon-Larsen, and Carolyn Tucker Halpern. The other authors are Samantha Attard, who is a … Read more

Dec 10, 2013 WRAL interviewed Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center, about her research on housing projections through 2050. Read the story and watch the video that was broadcast on Dec. 9th via the links … Read more

Dec 9, 2013 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Melinda S. Meade died November 19th at the age of 68. She became a CPC Faculty Fellow in 1979 and was a Fellow Emerita since 2009. She was a Professor Emerita of … Read more

Nov 22, 2013 On Nov. 15, Chinese government officials announced that the One Child Policy will be relaxed. For years, Yong Cai has advocated for this change. His research has shown that China has a low fertility rate not because … Read more