Aug 17, 2012 The Academy of Management selected Arne L. Kalleberg’s book for its annual George R. Terry Book Award. The book, ‘Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to … Read more

Aug 16, 2012 In a recent post on the Global Health Policy blog, Amanda Glassman and Denizhan Duran evaluate several programs that use cash transfers to reduce HIV-related risky behaviors among young people. Cash Transfers: Good for HIV/AIDS Too includes … Read more

Aug 1, 2012 S. Philip Morgan, an internationally known sociologist and population scientist, has been named the new director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will also become a UNC professor … Read more

Jul 16, 2012 The Lancet published an important series of articles on family planning in its July 14, 2012 issue. That issue also includes a profile of Amy Tsui who is “a scholar, an outstanding researcher, a leader in her … Read more

Jul 6, 2012 News story is cross-posted from the Add Health website here. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, UNC researchers have found that women who are overweight or obese years before becoming pregnant deliver babies … Read more

S. Philip Morgan, an internationally known sociologist and population scientist, has been named the new director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will also become a UNC professor in the sociology … Read more

Jun 18, 2012 “Amy H. Herring, ScD, professor of biostatistics at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, accepted the 2012 Gertrude M. Cox Award on June 5 at the Washington Statistical Society annual dinner, held at RTI International in … Read more

Jun 1, 2012 CHAPEL HILL — UNC Chapel Hill public policy professor Ashu Handa has won two research grants, each worth $634,000 over two years, to evaluate social cash transfer programs in Malawi and Zimbabwe. The grants were awarded by … Read more

Mar 14, 2012 Barry Popkin sees the struggle against food policies and marketing practices that promote excess weight as nothing less than a battle for human rights. The Spring 2012 issue of On Wisconsin features an interview with Barry Popkin, … Read more

This past summer the Population Division of the United Nations projected that the world would soon welcome its 7 billionth resident. The date arbitrarily selected to mark the event was October 31, 2011. By happy circumstance, on October 31 Benjamin … Read more