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CPC Fellows Krista Perreira, Kathie Harris and Ken Bollen receive publication award
June 28, 2007Jun 28, 2007 Congratulations to CPC fellows Krista Perreira, Kathie Harris, and Ken Bollen whose publication "What Are We Measuring? An Evaluation of the CES-D across Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Generation" has been selected as an honorable mention in the best publication category in the sociology of mental health from the Mental Heath Section of the…
CPC Fellow Philip Cohen comments on trends in mothers staying at home
June 19, 2007Jun 19, 2007 Mothers with the financial means have long had the choice to go back to work or stay home after the birth of their children. Today, however, more moms in all economic levels appear to be considering the stay home option - at least that's what some experts suspect when they point to…
CPC Fellow Andy Olshan receives grant to study head and neck cancers
May 30, 2007May 30, 2007 A grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will fund research on the experiences of head and neck cancer survivors, so that health professionals can effectively manage the impact of treatment on a patient's social, family and work roles. The three-year, $246,760 grant was…
CPC Fellow Entwisle Receives Funding to Research “Modeling Household Dynamics and Land Use”
May 17, 2007May 17, 2007 Barbara Entwisle, CPC Fellow and Director and Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the research project "Modeling Household Dynamics and Land Use." This research project uses an empirically informed agent-based simulation approach to examine the dynamic interrelationships among migration, household assets, and…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses soft drinks, beverages in news
May 16, 2007May 16, 2007 The 11-year-old patient showed a considerable amount of tooth decay since his last cleaning, prompting his dentist, Dr. Anjali Miranda, to take action: No more soda for the boy at home, and only an occasional soft drink when he eats out with his parents.... Barry Popkin [a professor of nutrition at the…
CPC Trainee Tyson Brown’s research on childless women and mothers appears in news
May 14, 2007May 14, 2007 For one day each year, motherhood brings flowers, cards and Sunday brunches, but a new University of Florida study asks, how important is it for women's happiness in midlife whether and when they had children? ... Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox worked on the study with Amy Pienta, a University of Michigan sociologist, and Tyson…
CPC Fellow Philip Cohen quoted in news
May 11, 2007May 11, 2007 Great news, couples! You're doing better than ever! ...Philip Cohen , a sociology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, said it helps that many weddings involve older participants than in years past. That's a chief predictor of the success of marriages, along with income and education levels, he said. To read the entire article,…
CPC Fellow Cohen Awarded NSF Funding for Management Matters Project
May 4, 2007May 4, 2007 Philip N. Cohen, CPC Fellow and UNC Associate Professor of Sociology, has been awarded funding for the project Management Matters: Consequences of Managerial Composition. This project will examine the association between managerial composition and inequality among nonmanagerial workers. Funded by the National Science Foundation through March 2008, this will be the first…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on energy beverages in News & Observer
April 27, 2007Apr 27, 2007 Tim McCullen drinks his morning pick-me-up at 3 p.m. Instead of black coffee, McCullen, who tends bar at The Goat in Raleigh, downs a couple of effect brand energy drinks when he reports for a shift that doesn't end till the wee hours. ..."We don't really have any sense of how it…
CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman’s research appears in news
April 26, 2007Apr 26, 2007 High blood levels of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids, found in fish oil, may help preserve thinking ability in the elderly, according to the findings of two studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ...In the second study, which involved 2,251 older individuals, [former CPC trainee] Dr. May A. Beydoun…