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CPC Fellow Kalleberg Elected President of American Sociological Association
June 19, 2006Jun 19, 2006 Arne Kalleberg, CPC Fellow and Kenan Professor of Sociology, has been elected President of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Kalleberg will serve as chair of the 2007 ASA Program Committee, and will assume the President's office in 2008.Congratulations to Arne!
CPC Fellow Michael Emch’s Research Highlighted in Government Health IT
June 14, 2006Jun 14, 2006 Population health mapping can aggregate statistics from a variety of sources and overlay the data with digital maps to help public officials target responses to problems or decide where to focus clinical resources. One recent project used mapping to study the effectiveness of a cholera vaccine in different regions of Bangladesh. The…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin Comments on High Fructose Corn Syrup
June 8, 2006Jun 8, 2006 Who knew corn could be so sweet? Who knew corn could be so controversial? ... "This is 5 to 10 percent of the calorie intake of every American," says Dr. Barry Popkin. "We really should be studying it more." Dr. Popkin and other researchers have published studies noting that the increase in…
USA Today Quotes CPC Fellow Barry Popkin on His Obesity and Disability Research
June 7, 2006Jun 7, 2006 Disability has an enormous effect on the quality of life of older adults, says Barry Popkin, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research shows that being obese increases people's chances of becoming physically disabled, staying in the hospital longer, retiring earlier, going to a nursing…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin Weighs in on New Agreement to Stop Selling Sugary Drinks in Schools
May 5, 2006May 5, 2006 "It makes it seem like they care about child obesity," said Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the UNC School of Public Health who has helped develop guidelines for healthy drinking. Popkin said that drinks are as responsible as food for childhood obesity -- and that most of those drinks are…
CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen’s Research on Risky Behavior in Adolescents Featured in News
May 5, 2006May 5, 2006 As the school year comes to a close, 'tis the season for proms, graduations, last flings and parties. ... "Adolescents who spend a lot of time watching TV or playing computer video games tend to be at higher risk for engaging in all of these risky behaviors," says study co-author Penny Gordon-Larsen,…
CPC Fellow Philip Cohen Quoted in LA Times
May 3, 2006May 3, 2006 "For many households across Southern California that depend on domestic workers, Monday was the usual day with immigrants. ... Of these Southern California workers, nearly 80% of the nannies are Latino," said Philip Cohen, sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who based his estimates on 2000 census…
CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen’s Research on Children and Physical Activity Featured in the News
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 2006 ''We already know that it's important for kids to be physically active in order to protect against being overweight and developing future cardiovascular disease,'' said Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D., study co-author and assistant professor of nutrition at the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.…
CPC Fellow Jane Brown Interviewed about Her Research on Sex and the Media
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 2006 "Teens are defaulting to entertainment media for sexual information because they are not getting this information in other places," said Dr. Jane D. Brown, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina.The full article appears on www.vnunet.com The article is based on Brown's research published…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s Research on Beverage Consumption Highlighted in USA Today
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 2006 You are what you eat, you've no doubt heard. But, increasingly, we are what we drink: By 2001, soda, juice, milk, beer and other beverages accounted for 21% of the calories consumed by Americans, up from 16% in the 1970s, says Barry Popkin, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at…