Sep 9, 2009 Audrey Pettifor, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center, has begun work on a new project in South Africa that will evaluate whether paying girls to attend school will reduce their risk of infection with HIV. The … Read more

Sep 2, 2009 The Washington Post published a story about Facebook users’ approach to the question about religious views in the profile setting. The article quotes Piotr Bobkowski, a graduate research assistant at the Carolina Population Center, who is working … Read more

Aug 27, 2009 UNC News issued a release to the media about this new study: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2818/107/ The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the … Read more

Aug 25, 2009 The August 2009 issue of SELF magazine features a story about weight control and has an accompanying quiz called “What’s Your Weight Fate?” The story cites research by Barry Popkin, CPC Fellow and Carla Steel Chamblee Distinguished … Read more

Aug 20, 2009 The recent issue of Newsweek cites research by Carolina Population Center Fellow Philip N. Cohen about multi-generational households. Cohen is also an associate professor of sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. The story, You Will Be a Parent to … Read more

Aug 10, 2009 An editorial column in The Garner-News that says food is the new tobacco discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin‘s new book, “The World is Fat,” linking the addiction to tobacco to the addiction to fatty foods as they … Read more

Aug 10, 2009 CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry and his 1970 study on birth rates after one-night events were recently cited in a MSNBC article. The article discusses the myth of a baby boom after President … Read more

Jun 29, 2009 CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen and her study on increased weight gain in couples who live together will be featured in TIME magazine’s July 6th edition and is on the front page of Time.com as a “Must Read” … Read more

Jun 22, 2009 CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen, Ph. D., an associate professor of nutrition at UNC, and her research on increased weight gain in couples who live together were featured on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, a weekly comedy … Read more

Jun 16, 2009 An article recently published by the Associated Press reports new pregnancy guidelines from the Institute of Medicine for how much weight women should gain during their pregnancy. CPC Fellow Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, an associate professor of … Read more