Apr 26, 2010 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Amy H. Herring has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ASA is the scholarly and education association for statisticians and quantitative scientists and currently has 18,000 members … Read more

Apr 21, 2010 Wiley-Blackwell issued a news release today about an article by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Glen H. Elder, Jr. The article, Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military, appears in the June 2010 issue of Social Science Quarterly, which … Read more

Mar 30, 2010 The Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been awarded to Dr. Christine Bachrach, renowned population researcher and former Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The … Read more

Mar 30, 2010 Glen H. Elder, Jr., a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and Research Professor of Sociology, was interviewed by The Atlantic for a story about the current environment of high unemployment and how it may impact today’s young … Read more

Obesity is one of the most pressing global population health issues, and importantly one that affects race/ethnic minorities and those of low socioeconomic status disproportionately. Each day, we learn more and more about the complex relationships between biologic, socioeconomic, demographic, … Read more

Mar 15, 2010 Kenneth A. Bollen has been elected chair of the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  This is the primary section for the social sciences at AAAS.  … Read more

Mar 10, 2010 A new study shows both weight and diabetes risk fell for people in communities where fast food prices increased. “This study gives us strong scientific evidence that price policies, including taxes, could actually be effective at helping … Read more

Mar 5, 2010 Carolyn Tucker Halpern, CPC Fellow and UNC Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health, will launch a project called Sexual Behavior Trajectories from Adolescence to Adulthood. To conduct the study, Halpern received a $1.6 million grant from … Read more

Mar 2, 2010 Margarita Mooney, CPC Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology, will be a panelist at this UNC public discussion about citizenship, assimilation and national identity. Undocumented Immigrants in America: Our National IdentityUNC’s FedEx Global Education CenterMarch 256:30pm … Read more

Mar 2, 2010 Barry Popkin and co-author Carmen Piernas studied snacking trends of U.S children and found that “childhood snacking trends are moving toward three snacks per day, and more than 27 percent of children’s daily calories are coming from … Read more