29 July 2009
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Media:
Gary Gates' work on same-sex couples was mentioned in a recent Economist article.

Awards:
Barbara Lawrence receives Everett Cherrington Hughes Award for Career Scholarship. Press Release

New CCPR Faculty Affiliates 2008/9:
A number of colleagues joined CCPR as faculty affiliates during the 2008/9 academic year, please join us in welcoming them.
Onyebuchi Arah (Epidemiology)
Paola Guiliano (Anderson)
Nico Voigtlander (Anderson)
Romain Wacziarg (Anderson)
Robert Jensen (Public Policy)
Suzanne Bianchi (Sociology)
Ondine von Ehrenstein (Community Health Sciences)
Richard Wight (Community Health Sciences)

Seed Grant Recipients for 2008-2009:

"Geographic Dispersion and the Well-Being of the Elderly" Suzanne Bianchi (Dept. of Sociology, UCLA), Judith Seltzer (Dept. of Sociology, UCLA), Kathleen McGarry (Dept. of Economics, UCLA)

"Human Capital and the US Growth Take-Off: How Positively Selected Were Immigrants During the Age of Mass Migration?" Leah Boustan (Dept. of Economics, UCLA), et al.

"Promoting Health Investments through Informal Saving Networks" Pascaline Dupas (Dept. of Economics, UCLA) and Jonathan Robinson (Dept. of Economics, UCSC)

"Developing a Study of the Effects of Environmental Changes on Health-Related behaviors and Chronic Metabolic Conditions in Chinese Populations" May Wang (Dept. of Community Health Sciences, UCLA), et al.

PhD Recipients:
Congratulations to Jennifer Flashman, Pamela Stoddard and Shonali Choudhury on completion of their PhDs. Jennifer has taken a post doc at Nuffield College, Oxford, Pamela has taken a post doc at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies in San Francisco and Shonali has taken a post doc at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford.