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CPC Fellow Gordon-Larsen receives 2010 Lilly Scientific Achievement Award
July 13, 2010Jul 13, 2010 Penny Gordon-Larsen, a CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Nutrition at UNC, has received the 2010 Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society. The award recognizes excellence in an established research career and is funded by an annual grant from the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company. Recipients are awarded a plaque and…
Research by CPC Fellow Elder featured in New York Times stories about current economic downturn and its affects on young people
July 13, 2010Jul 13, 2010 The New York Times has recently published two articles about young people in the United States and the current economic recession. Both articles refer to research by Glen H. Elder, Jr. about children in the Depression era and how they coped with economic hardships. The most recent New York Times story, Will…
CPC Fellow Harris to speak at Congressional Briefing on effects of economic recession, July 12
June 30, 2010Jun 30, 2010 CPC Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris will speak at a Congressional Briefing entitled "Recession and Recovery: How are Americans Affected?" on Monday, July 12, 2010. The briefing will focus on how the nation's most vulnerable populations are affected by economic downturn. Dr. Harris is Director and Principal Investigator of the Add Health study…
New NIH requirement to use My NCBI’s “My Bibliography” instead of eRA Commons for bibliography management
June 28, 2010Jun 28, 2010 NIH recently announced a new requirement for Project Investigators and Program Directors related to their publications listed in eRA Commons. As of July 23, 2010, PIs and PDs are required to use the My Bibliography feature in My NCBI to develop their publications lists. NIH lists three goals for this change: ease…
Duplin Times-Progress Sentinel features NIH officials’ visit to National Children’s Study offices in Duplin County, NC
June 28, 2010Jun 28, 2010 The Duplin Times-Progress Sentinel published a story about the visit of leaders from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the local operation of the National Children's Study in Duplin County. CPC Director and Fellow Barbara Entwisle and Nancy Dole (CPC Deputy Director for Research Services)…
Our blog CPC World features CPC Fellow Pearce while doing research in Nepal
June 2, 2010Jun 2, 2010 Carolina Population Center's blog, CPC World, includes reports by CPC researchers as they travel near and far to collect data for their studies, report on the progress or findings of their research, attend conferences and meetings, and collaborate with colleagues in other countries. Currently, CPC Fellow Lisa Pearce and intern Taylor Hargrove…
CPC Fellow Herring receives the McGavran Award for excellence in teaching
May 21, 2010May 21, 2010 CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Biostatistics Amy H. Herring received a prestigious teaching award from UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Herring was awarded the McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching which "recognizes career-long excellence in teaching by a faculty member in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health."…
Economic and cultural factors lead to China’s low fertility rate, more so than government’s one-child policy
May 18, 2010China is famous for its one-child policy. Thirty years ago, most Chinese women gave birth to two to three children, already one of the lowest among developing countries. In its first decade of chaotic implementation, China's fertility stayed at a level of more than two children per woman, followed by an accelerated drop in fertility…
CPC Fellow Herring elected as American Statistical Association Fellow
April 26, 2010Apr 26, 2010 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Amy H. Herring has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ASA is the scholarly and education association for statisticians and quantitative scientists and currently has 18,000 members worldwide. Herring is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill. The UNC Gillings School of…
Wiley-Blackwell features CPC Fellow Elder’s research about why young men join the U.S. military
April 21, 2010Apr 21, 2010 Wiley-Blackwell issued a news release today about an article by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Glen H. Elder, Jr. The article, Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military, appears in the June 2010 issue of Social Science Quarterly, which is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The article was co-authored by CPC postdoctoral scholar Lin Wang, former…