Jan 18, 2007 A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat. Among nearly 3,400 young adults participating in a long-term study, every additional fast food meal they consumed each week correlated with … Read more

Jan 17, 2007 Dr. Barry M. Popkin has been named the first Carla Smith Chamblee distinguished professor of global nutrition in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill effective Jan. 1. The professorship … Read more

Jan 10, 2007 When most people think about calories, they consider food, not drink. Yet beverages now account for about 20 percent of daily calories consumed by those 2 and older, according to Barry M. Popkin, director of the Interdisciplinary … Read more

Jan 10, 2007 Arne Kalleberg, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who specializes in economic equality, said that while the wage hike may be a financial hit for businesses, it may also make minimum wage jobs … Read more

Dec 28, 2006 N.C. population surges into nation’s top 10 Continuing waves of newcomers from the Northeast and other regions boosted both Carolinas in the ranks of the nation’s most populous states in new U.S. Census Bureau data being released … Read more

Dec 18, 2006 Kathleen Mullan Harris, CPC Fellow and Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC, has received funds from the American Bar Association to investigate parental incarceration as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health … Read more

Dec 8, 2006 Along with the American waistline, the American plate and portion size have grown too. A study at Rutgers University supports earlier research that people today eat bigger servings than they did 20 years ago. A 1994 informal … Read more

Dec 7, 2006 CPC Fellow and UNC Professor of Anthropology, Paul W. Leslie, has received funding for the project “HSD Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Parks as Agents of Change in Eastern and Southern Africa.” This research project will examine the … Read more

Nov 27, 2006 Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty – an epidemiologist studying adverse birth outcomes and a scholar of American cultural engagement with Islam – have been named 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholars. Dr. Jay Kaufman and Dr. … Read more

Nov 14, 2006 Sociologist Glen Elder Jr., author of “Children of the Great Depression,” said journalists wrote then of a lost generation. They had it wrong. “Resilience,” Elder said recently, “was the central theme coming out of that period.” To … Read more