Professor Amy H. Herring accepted the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association’s Statistics Section on Tuesday, Oct. 30th at the organization’s Annual Meeting. The award honors her outstanding achievements as a public health biostatistician under age 40. … Read more

James C. “Jim” Thomas, Ph.D., has been appointed the new Director of MEASURE Evaluation. In 2008, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded up to $181 million for the 6-year Project, which remains the largest award ever received … Read more

Nov 8, 2012 Professor Amy H. Herring accepted the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association’s Statistics Section on Tuesday, Oct. 30th at the organization’s Annual Meeting. The award honors her outstanding achievements as a public health biostatistician … Read more

Nov 2, 2012 Read about Dick Udry’s impact on CPC’s mission in this feature story that includes comments by Carolyn Tucker Halpern, S. Philip Morgan, and Ronald R. Rindfuss https://www.cpc.unc.edu/news/features/udry. A gathering in remembrance of Udry will be held November … Read more

Nov 1, 2012 Carolina Population Center Postdoctoral Scholars Sandra Albrecht and Mosi Ifatunji will each receive a 2012 UNC-CH Postdoctoral Scholar Award for Research Excellence on November 12. Each year, ten awards are given in recognition of individuals with outstanding … Read more

Oct 31, 2012 USA Today reports that the Chinese government may soon revise its 30-year old family planning policy that limits births to one child per couple. “Chinese think tank urges end to one-child policy” appeared in the Oct. 31 … Read more

Oct 25, 2012 The October 16 issue of the University Gazette features an interview with Phil Morgan, who became the director of the Carolina Population Center in July 2012. He answers questions about CPC and its challenges, his research interests, … Read more

Sep 12, 2012 The research project is called “The Relationship between Soil Degradation, Rural Livelihoods, and Household Well-Being.” Clark Gray, Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Professor of Geography, is the project’s principal investigator. His research team … Read more

Sep 12, 2012 The Guardian’s story is: Kenyan study shows that cash-transfer payments reduce sexual risk: New research shows that cash payments reduce risky sexual behaviour and HIV infection among orphans and children. Read it here. The study was conducted … Read more

Sep 11, 2012 Yang Yang, Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow, was awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty. Yang … Read more