Congratulations to Judith Seltzer, PAA Newest Board Member!
CCPR faculty affiliate Judith Seltzer has just been elected to the PAA Board of Directors for a three year term. Her term begins on January 1, 2010. Congratulations, Judy!
06/24/09
Graduate student, Tara McKay, recently testified about effects that California budget cuts would have on HIV treatment.
As a result of public testimony which included presentations of research findings by Tara and her colleagues, the HIV Commission voted NOT to adopt the FY 2010 funding allocations as presented (which proposed eliminating funding for Nutrition Support [food] and Treatment Education) and to remand the FY 2010 funding allocations back to the Priorities and Planning Committee for further discussion.
05/01/09
Valerie K. Oppenheimer received the 2009 Harriet B. Presser Award from the Population Association of America on Friday, May 1, 2009.
The Presser Award is given for a record of sustained contribution in gender and demography. This is the first time that this new award was given. In announcing the winner, the Presser Award Committee Chair, Professor Paula England of Stanford University noted that it was entirely appropriate that Valerie Oppenheimer be the first recipient, given her long and distinguished record of contributions in research on gender and labor force.
04/24/09
Please join us in congratulating Vilma Ortiz and Eddie Telles whose book, Generations of Exclusion, won the PSA 2009 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship and the 2009 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award of the ASA Population Section.
Both Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles are professors in the Sociology Department. In their recent book, Generations of Exclusion, they tracked down descendants of Mexican immigrants surveyed in the 1960s. They report that progress peaked with the immigrants’ children, with subsequent generations less likely to finish high school or college.
Please join us in welcoming Jamie Jamison as a new member of the ISSR Data Archives staff.
Jamie has had a long relationship with the Archive beginning way back when we still had round tapes. Jamie refers to her time with us as when she was the "Tape Schlep" but she really did quite a bit more for us including maintaining all of our records on acquisitions. Jamie was also an intern with us while she did her MLIS here at UCLA. Her interests and skills match very nicely with what we do in the archive – digital archiving, social science data management, web design, database programming and statistical analysis. Jamie will begin in the Data Archives on January 26th as our Technology Specialist. If you have a chance to stop by the Archive please come in and introduce yourself. Welcome Jamie!
10/29/08
Congratulations to Jennifer Toller Erausquin!
Jennifer Toller Erausquin is a PhD Candidate in Community Health Sciences. Her poster, "Contexts of gender: a multilevel study of women and HIV/STI risk behavior in the Dominican Republic and Haiti," has been selected for the Outstanding Student Poster Award from the Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Section at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, October 2008. We are proud to have her represent CCPR, the Department of Community Health Sciences, and UCLA at the APHA conference.
9/24/08
Prof. Thomas Gillespie is featured on Science News and LA Times!
Thomas Gillespie is an Associate Professor in the Geography Department at UCLA. His and Prof. John Agnew's recent research on geographic information systems (GIS) was a top
story on Science Daily (9/22/08). The headline reads, "Study Of Satellite Imagery Casts Doubt On Surge's Success In Baghdad". In addition, it was blog by James Gerstenzang of the LA Times: "Countdown to Crawford: The Last Days of the Bush Administration".
9/11/08
Prof. Jennie Brand features in Forbes Magazine and US News and World report!
Jennie Brand is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at UCLA. Her recent research on job displacement and social participation was a top
story on US News and World Report (9/9/08) and Forbes.com (9/8/08). The headline reads, "Job Loss Has Long-Term Impact on Social Lives"
Gary J. Gates, HNZ’00, national expert on the demographic and economic characteristics of the gay and lesbian population, won an Alumni Award from CMU for his important research and commitment to social justice, gay rights and human rights.
Jennie Brand is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at UCLA. Her recent research on job displacement and social participation was a top
story on Yahoo! News front page on September 1, 2008. The headline reads, "People who lose their jobs shun social outlets."
8/04/08
Congratulations to Robert Mare!
Rob Mare has been elected President-Elect of the Population
Association of America for 2009. This means that he will serve as PAA
president in 2010.
The PAA President is responsible for organizing the PAA meetings,
running PAA (along with the Board of Directors and staff), and
representing PAA in many venues.
Gary J. Gates is a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and the coauthor of "The Gay and Lesbian Atlas." He is widely acknowledged as the nation's leading expert on the demography and geography of the gay and lesbian population. His doctoral dissertation included the first significant research exploring characteristics of same-sex couples using U.S. Census data. He has since published extensively on the demographic and economic traits of the lesbian and gay population. His work has been featured in many national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Financial Times, and National Public Radio.
5/29/08
Congratulations to Tara McKay!
Tara's abstract for the 2008 APHA Meeting has been selected as the winner of the award "Excellence in Abstract Submission among Student APHA Members." Tara is also the winner of the 2008 Rosenstein Student Scholarship for HIV/AIDS.
Elizabeth (Libbie) Stephenson, UCLA's Data Archivist, with whom CCPR works closely, has received an award for her article about data literarcy. Every year Emerald invites each journal’s Editorial Team to nominate what they believe has been that title’s Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers from the previous 12 months. Libbie's article entitled Incorporating data literacy into undergraduate information literacy programs in the social sciences: A pilot project published in Reference Services Review has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008.
4/21/08
Congratulations to Jenjira Yahirun!
We are pleased to announce that at the PAA meetings last week, Jenjira Yahirun won a "best poster" award for her poster on her M.A. research, "Take Me Home: Determinants of Return Migration among Later Life Immigrants in Germany."
1/25/08
Data Archive Librarian Honored Libbie Stephenson, director of the Social Science Data Archives in the Institute for Social Science Research, received the William H. Flanigan Award for distinguished service from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). As part of its mission to support the social sciences, ICPSR honors individuals who have distinguished themselves in their service to the social science community.
1/18/08
Congratulations to our Faculty Seed Grant Awardees! Congratulations to the following faculty who have been awarded Seed Grants to support pilot research: Carol Aneshensel (Community Health Sciences, UCLA), Teresa Seeman (Geriatrics, UCLA), and Richard Wright (Community Health Sciences, UCLA): "Gendered Lives and Health in Late Life" Gilbert Gee (Community Health Sciences, UCLA) and Richard Lichtenstein (Health Management and Policy, Univ. of Michigan): "Accent and Name Discrimination in Health Care: A Pilot Study" We are delighted to be able to support these exciting research!
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