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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health Program Announcement
February 2, 2005Feb 2, 2005 This announcement invites applications to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural constructs and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and cultural factors in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c) link basic research … Read more
GIS and Population Science Workshops – Summer 2005
January 24, 2005Jan 24, 2005 Two GIS and Population Science workshops (supported by an NICHD R25 training grant) will be offered during Summer 2005. The GISPopSci workshops are scheduled for May 29 – June 11, 2005 (Penn State) and June 19-July 2, … Read more
New IRB Website and Forms
January 18, 2005Jan 18, 2005 As recently announced, the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) was created to centralize and enhance oversight of research at UNC-Chapel Hill involving human subjects. The next phase of integration will be to standardize practices across all … Read more
NIA Program Announcement – Retirement Economics
January 13, 2005Jan 13, 2005 The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. The research objectives of this Program Announcement include, but are not limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in work … Read more
Steve Wernke TV appearance
November 30, 2004Nov 30, 2004 Steve Wernke’s wife Tiffiny Tung is going to appear on an upcoming Discovery Channel series, Mummy Autopsy, as a regular investigator and he may appear a time or two as well as a consultant. Dr. Tung is … Read more
World Development Indicators on the Network
October 21, 2004Oct 21, 2004 World Development Indicators 2004 is now available on the network and can be found at R:WDI2004. Use of this data from the server requires a setup program to be run on the users’ workstations. Please write to … Read more
East-West Center Summer Seminar on Population, 2005
October 18, 2004Oct 18, 2004 The East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii is seeking participants for its 36th Summer Seminar on Population, to be held May 31-June 30, 2005 at EWC. In 2005, the three Summer Seminar workshop topics are:1. Evaluating the … Read more
Nang Rong Projects Data Release
October 14, 2004Oct 14, 2004 The Nang Rong Projects are releasing for public use much of the Social Survey Data, including most of the 1984, 1994, and 2000 household census data as well as most of the 1994-95 and 2000-01 migrant follow-up … Read more
Symposium on Inequalities in Population Call for Papers
October 7, 2004Oct 7, 2004 The Research Committee on Sociology of Population (RC41) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is pleased to announce that it will hold its mid-Congress symposium on September 15 and 16, 2005, in Malta. The general theme of … Read more
CPC Receives Obesity Center Grant
October 1, 2004Oct 1, 2004 The Carolina Population Center has been awarded a grant under NIH’s prestigious National Center for Research Resources Program. The grant will be used to establish an Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more