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Perreira, CPC Fellow, receives funding to study dietary patterns and obesity risk among Latino infants and toddlers in NC
September 30, 2008Sep 30, 2008 Krista M. Perreira, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), has received funding for the study "Dietary Patterns and Obesity Risk among Latino Infants and Toddlers in North Carolina." The study will examine the dietary patterns and practices of new immigrant…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin featured in Voice of America news item on obesity
September 25, 2008Sep 25, 2008 CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses obesity trends and solutions in this Voice of America piece. "'In the last 50 to 60 years, in the post world war era, in both the U.S. and the other high-income countries, we've had a slow shift in the way we live so we've become more sedentary,…
CPC Fellow Adair receives funding from NIH to study origins of adult disease risk factors
September 23, 2008Sep 23, 2008 Linda S. Adair, CPC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), was awarded funding for the project "Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors." Using data from the Cebu (Philippines) Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, this study will use…
CPC Fellow Mouw awarded NSF funding to study immigration and the dynamics of labor market adjustment
September 23, 2008Sep 23, 2008 Ted Mouw, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received funding from the National Science Foundation to begin work on the study "Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment." Mouw's study will examine how the United States labor market adjusts to an…
Time Magazine quotes CPC Fellow Jane Brown in report on adolescent girls’ sexuality
September 15, 2008Sep 15, 2008 "Unless you're an adolescent male, you have already asked yourself this question, perhaps in the past few days: Is there something wrong with teen girls? ...According to Jane Brown, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 'Twelve-to-14-year-old girls who start puberty earlier are more interested in sexual…
News & Observer reports on CPC’s record MEASURE Evaluation award
September 11, 2008Sep 11, 2008 The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported on Tuesday that the Carolina Population Center has received the largest grant in UNC's history for its MEASURE Evaluation Project.The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill up to $181 million…
UNC receives record $181 million grant to evaluate health, poverty and gender programs worldwide
September 8, 2008Sep 8, 2008 UNC News Release Available at: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-receives-record-181-million-grant-to-evaluate-health-poverty-and-gender-programs-worldwide.html Monday, September 08, 2008 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill up to $181 million to continue its MEASURE Evaluation project. The award is the largest ever received by UNC.…
CPC Fellow Jane Brown quoted in Newsweek story about Hollywood’s coverage of teen pregnancy
August 6, 2008Aug 6, 2008 Jane Brown, CPC Fellow and Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, was interviewed by Newsweek in a story that explains that, though pregnant teenagers are appearing more often in TV shows, movies, and in magazines, the coverage could be better. An excerpt from the article: In none of these shows are the…
Chronicle of Higher Education covers ASA presidential address given by CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg
August 6, 2008Aug 6, 2008 CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg presented the presidential address at the American Sociological Association's 103rd Annual Meeting in Boston on August 2nd, 2008. Kalleberg, Professor of Sociology, spoke about the conference's theme, Worlds of Work. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on several different sessions at the conference, including Kalleberg's presidential address. An…
CPC Fellow Ronald Rindfuss comments on the impact of the “baby boomlet” in USA Today
July 18, 2008Jul 18, 2008 "A record number of babies were born in the USA in 2007, according to early federal data released Wednesday that some demographers say could signal an impending baby 'boomlet'.... "But family demographer Ronald Rindfuss of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill says there is a bigger question looming than who's having kids.…