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June 24, 2024New Data Release from Add Health
June 24, 2024The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. Wave V Contextual Despair This contextual data set focuses on the social, political, and resource environment of Add Health respondents at the tract, county, and state level that are relevant to the prevailing causes of death in midlife – namely alcohol-related diseases, drug overdoses…
Study: Hiring pressures to diversify influencing patterns of discrimination in unexpected ways
June 3, 2024In 2004, a pair of economists published a landmark study to measure discrimination in the labor market. In the study, the researchers applied to real job openings with fictitious applicants but change the applicant names to reflect a different gender or race. They found clear evidence of discrimination: White men and women received 50% more callbacks…
National Academy of Sciences elects Arne Kalleberg
May 20, 2024On April 30, the academy announced the election of 120 new members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Carolina faculty members Arne Kalleberg is among the newest members…
Understanding Pathways from Implementation to Sustainment: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Analysis of Promising Practices in the VHA
April 22, 2024April 2024 QMLC newsletter
Postdoctoral opportunity measurement structural racism NIH funded grant
April 22, 2024Please find below an exciting opportunity at University of Maryland for a postdoctoral fellow interested in working on a newly awarded NIH R01. The work is related to the measurement of structural racism and health inequalities. This time, we are looking for a person with training in measurement theory. More info about the grant can…
Senate bill introduced based on research of Global Food Research Program
April 22, 2024Senators Sanders (I-VT) and Booker (D-NJ) introduced a Senate bill on childhood diabetes that was based on research from the UNC Global Food Research Program as well as Lindsey Smith Taillie's testimony in the Senate last December. Taillie is a Faculty Fellow at CPC. She recently authored an op-ed on the bill, which was published…
CPC at PAA 2024
April 10, 2024The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be April 17-20, 2024 in Columbus, OH. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, CPC external faculty affiliates, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, staff members and others across UNC-Chapel Hill. The final program is available (pdf). Thursday, April 18, 2024…
Gemayel receives Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
April 8, 2024Predoctoral Trainee Georgina Gemayel received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award. Gemayel is a MA/doctoral student in the department of Geography, advised by Clark Gray. Other recipients include Adriana Wisniewski (Biological Anthropology), advised by Amanda Thompson and Athena Owirodu, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology.
Clark Gray paper receives 2023 IPUMS Research Award
April 8, 2024Clark Gray and Maia Call received the 2023 IPUMS Research Award in the category of published research using IPUMS Spatial data. Their paper, "Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics" was published in Population and Environment in April 2023. Gray is a population and human-environment geographer interested in the interactions between…