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Predoctoral trainee Iliya Gutin receives IAPHS Student Award
June 18, 2019The award recognizes “work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a student in the population health sciences.” Iliya Gutin, a doctoral candidate in sociology and a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center, received … Read more
How does exposure to extreme weather affect both people and places over time?
June 18, 2019An interdisciplinary team including several CPC Fellows has received a UNC Creativity Hub Pilot Award to investigate the long-term impact of storms Climate change is generating more frequent and more powerful extreme weather events along the Eastern seaboard and Gulf … Read more
Obituary: Betty Cogswell
May 18, 2019Obituary for Betty Cogswell: 1930-2019 Burlington, NC Dr. Cogswell was a Faculty Affiliate of the Carolina Population Center beginning in 1971. In 1977, when the Center began the Fellows Program, Dr. Cogswell was elected as a Faculty Fellow and would … Read more
Demography Daze: May 13
May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 The annual Demography Daze event is a collaboration between UNC’s Carolina Population Center and Duke University’s Population Research Institute. Demography Daze13 May 2019Carolina Population Center2002 Carolina Square 1-2:15: Bridget Goosby “It Takes a Village: What Interdisciplinarity and … Read more
CPC Fellow Harris elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019 Kathleen Mullan Harris has received the prestigious honor of being elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Harris is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and is UNC’s James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology. The … Read more
Kathleen Mullan Harris awarded Population Association of America’s Irene B. Taeuber Award
April 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019 Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD, is the first Faculty Fellow at Carolina Population Center to receive the Population Association of America’s Irene B. Taeuber Award in “recognition of an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study … Read more
CPC at PAA 2019
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 10-13 at the JW Marriott Austin. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff … Read more
New website launched for exploring global tuberculosis (TB) data
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC-The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is launching a new tuberculosis (TB) data hub today in Washington, DC. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is playing … Read more
The Depths of Despair among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 The American Journal of Public Health has issued a publication by Carolina Population Center researchers entitled “The Depths of Despair among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife.” Utilizing Add Health Wave V data, this research explores health indicators such … Read more
CPC Scholar Gutierrez awarded RSF grant: The ACA and the Demography of the U.S. Criminal Justice Population
March 11, 2019The Russell Sage Foundation has awarded a grant entitled “The ACA and the Demography of the U.S. Criminal Justice Population” to CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Carmen Gutierrez. Over the course of its two years of funding, the grant will support Gutierrez … Read more