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Winners Selected for UNC Creativity Hubs Inaugural Awards
May 15, 2018Carolina Research Teams Span Disciplines to Fight Obesity, Advance Water Purification Published by UNC Research. UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative, a component of the Carolina Blueprint for Next strategic framework, has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to … Read more
Winners Selected for UNC Creativity Hubs Inaugural Awards
May 4, 2018May 4, 2018 Carolina Research Teams Span Disciplines to Fight Obesity, Advance Water Purification Published by UNC Research. UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative, a component of the Carolina Blueprint for Next strategic framework, has announced awards to campus research teams … Read more
CPC Researchers Acknowledged as Poster Session Winners at Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting 2018
May 3, 2018May 3, 2018 See all of CPC’s posters presented at PAA 2018 here. The 2018 PAA conference was held April 26-28 at the Sheraton in downtown Denver, CO. Researchers from the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at UNC Chapel Hill were … Read more
In Memoriam of Jason Davis, Assistant Professor of Geography and CPC Faculty Fellow
April 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018 We mourn the passing on April 1st of Jason Davis, Assistant Professor of Geography and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Jason was a young and prolific scholar who studied the relationships between migration, development and … Read more
CPC Fellows Popkin, Ng & Taillie funded to evaluate the implications of policies on food purchasing patterns, diets, & health
April 9, 2018Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile … Read more
CPC Fellows Popkin, Ng & Taillie funded to evaluate the implications of policies on food purchasing patterns, diets, & health
April 9, 2018Apr 9, 2018 Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in … Read more
DHIS 2 organizes a world of health data
March 27, 2018Mar 27, 2018 This short video tells how a software system helps low-resource countries compile and analyze health data to improve services. Video by MEASURE Evaluation. DHIS 2 – A Workhorse for Health Information https://vimeo.com/257187268
CPC at PAA 2018
March 26, 2018Mar 26, 2018 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 26-28 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff … Read more
CPC Researcher Tippett presents at My Future NC: Leakage from the College Pipeline
February 16, 2018Feb 16, 2018 Cross posted from http://www.higheredworksfoundation.org/2018/02/college-pipeline/ WINSTON-SALEM – Under current trends, out of 100 North Carolina 9th-graders, 72 will graduate from high school in the next four years and say they intend to go to college. But only 53 … Read more
MEASURE Evaluation Project Scores UNC’s Largest-Ever Award: $232 Million for Social Science Research
January 24, 2018Jan 24, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC-One of the largest research awards made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) just got bigger, making MEASURE Evaluation not only UNC’s largest project in global health, but the largest single … Read more