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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…
Dr. Alejandro Portes Talk in Hill Hall, April 18
April 5, 2006Apr 5, 2006 Dr. Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, will be presenting: "The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Community of the United States", on Tuesday April 18, 2006 at 4:00 PM in Hill Hall Auditorium.…
Penn State Symposium, Oct 5-6, 2006
April 3, 2006Apr 3, 2006 Intergenerational dependent care will be the focus of Penn State's 14th annual Symposium on Family Issues, October 5-6, 2006. "Caring and Exchange Within and Across Generations" will be addressed by 16 of the top scholars in sociology, economics, demography, human development, and gerontology from major institutions. The symposium is innovative for…
Call for Papers: Add Health Users Conference
March 3, 2006Mar 3, 2006 Users of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are invited to submit abstracts for the seventh Add Health Users Conference, to be held July 17-18, 2006, in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference is being organized by Add Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and…
National Study of Youth and Religion Completes Data Collection for Second Wave of the Longitudinal Study
January 25, 2006Jan 25, 2006 Data collection for the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) is now complete. This longitudinal extension of the NSYR is funded by a three-year $1,101,092 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded to Lisa Pearce (CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology) and Christian Smith (Stuart Chapin Distinguished…
Add Health Study: Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood (NICHD Press Release)
January 25, 2006Jan 25, 2006 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NIH News National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) http://www.nichd.nih.gov For Immediate Release January 11, 2006 CONTACTS: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller bockr@mail.nih.gov 301-496-5134 Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood By…
CPC Weekly Seminar, Jan. 27: Note New Presentation Title
January 20, 2006Jan 20, 2006 Dr. M.E. Hughes, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke University, will present "What Money Can Buy: Marriage, Material Aspirations, and Home Ownership in the United States" on Friday, January 27 from noon to 1 pm in Toy Lounge, Dey Hall.
Findings from Adolescent Health Project Illustrate Increasing Health Risk from Teen Years to Adulthood
January 13, 2006Jan 13, 2006 A study published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine offers new insights into race/ethnic disparities in leading health indicators. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Project (Add Health) indicate increasing health risk and reduced access to health care from the teen years to the adult years for most…
UNC is one of six sites nationwide to start study on environment’s effects on children; Duplin County to be UNC’s study location
September 29, 2005Sep 29, 2005 The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as one of six institutions nationwide – and the only institution in the South – to kick off an unprecedented effort examining the effects of environmental, social, behavioral, biological and community factors…
Kalsbeek Chair-Elect for ASA Section on Survey Research Methods
September 22, 2005Sep 22, 2005 William Kalsbeek, CPC Fellow and Professor of Biostatistics, was recently elected chair-elect for the section on Survey Research Methods for the American Statistical Association at its national meeting. For information about the Survey Research Methds section, visit http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/. For more information about Kalsbeek, visit https://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=wkalsbeek.