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12/16/05
Vanesa
Estrada featured in UCLA Graduate Quarterly
CCPR student, Vanesa Estrada is featured in the Fall 2005 Graduate
Quarterly where she talks about her work on segregation and residential
mobility patterns. More specifically, she examines how did the racial composition of various Los
Angeles neighborhoods affect the likelihood that respondents of
different races would move there?
11/28/05
Young J. Kim, a mathematical demographer at Johns Hopkins University was
killed on October 27, 2005, in a car accident near Baltimore, MD. Professor Kim
joined the Department of Population Dynamics at Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health in 1972, was promoted to professor in 1987, and was recently named an
emeritus professor. Professor Kim served on the editorial boards of Mathematical
Population Studies and Demography and made major contributions to mathematical
demography. A scholarship fund for students has been established in her honor:
The Young J. Kim Memorial Scholarship Fund in the Department of Population and
Family Health Sciences of Johns Hopkins University (checks made to JHU can be
mailed to Ricky Fine, Room W1600, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205).
10/31/05
We are very sad to report that Dr.
Young Kim, an eminent demographer at Johns Hopkins University was tragically
killed in a car accident last week. As Dawn Upchurch, one of her students, puts
it, "Besides a brilliant scholar, Young was a wonderful, wonderful woman."
A memorial service is scheduled for
this Wednesday and a scholarship fund in her name is being started at Hopkins.
There will also be a memorial service for her at PAA this year.
This is a great loss to the demographic community and to the friends and
family that love her.
If you would like more details of any of this, please contact Dr. Nan Astone (nastone@jhsph.edu).
10/18/05
CONGRATULATIONS to our Seed Grant
Awardees!!!
Congratulations to Seema Jayachandran and Gary Gates who have each been
awarded CCPR Seed Grants. Seema is working with Erica Field (Harvard) and Alan
Bittles (Edith Cowan, Australia) on the causes and consequences of
consanguineous marriages in Pakistan. Gary is working with Kitt Carpenter
(Irvine) on partnership rates and partnership-based selection among same-sex
couples. We are delighted to be able to support this exciting research!
9/8/05
Congratulations, again, to Eddie
Telles who has won the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly
Publication Award for 2006 for his book Race in Another America, Princeton
University Press, 2004. This is the ASA's most important scholarly prize and the
second major award that Eddie has won for his book. Last month he won the Best
Book award from the ASA Population Section. This is terrific news--well
done, Eddie!
8/19/05
Congratulations to Eddie Telles who
won the Otis Dudley Duncan award for his book, Race in Another America: The
Significance of Skin Color in Brazil, from the Population Section of the
American Sociological Association. Well done, Eddie!
7/27/05
CONGRATULATIONS! To Rob Mare who
has been elected to the PAA Board of Directors for a three year term. Well done,
Rob!
CONGRATULATIONS! To Megan Sweeney who has been promoted to Associate
Professor of Sociology. Great news, Megan!
7/21/05
Congratulations to Cameron Campbell whose book "Life
Under Pressure, Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia,
1700-1900," which he lead-authored with Tommy Bengtsson and James
Lee, has won the Outstanding Book on Asia Award for 2005 from the
Asian/Asian-American Studies Section of the American Sociological
Association. The award will be presented at the Section Reception at ASA
on August 14.
For the ASA awards announcement go to
http://www.asanet.org/governance/secawds2005.html
7/11/05
Congratulations to Ruben
Hernandez-Leon on the publication of his book
New
Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States,
edited by Victor Zuniga
and Rubén Hernández-León and published by
Russell Sage. For more information, click
here.
7/7/05
Congratulations to Hector Conroy who
has been awarded a UC Mexus Dissertation Research Grant for 2005.
6/8/05
CONGRATULATIONS!! TO
Janet Currie who will assume the new Charles E. Davidson Chair in Economics on
July 1, 2005.
6/7/05
Professor Gail Harrison
interviewed on KPCC:
Study Says Nearly 3 Million Low
Income Californians Face Hunger
KPCC:
Shirley Jahad | 06/07/2005
[ Listen
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Gail Harrison, a public health professor at UCLA, discusses a UCLA study that
estimates about a third of low income people in the state suffer from what
researchers call "food insecurity" - not having enough money to buy food through
the month.
6/6/05
Congratulations to the
NICHD Trainees for 2005-06: Amy Carroll, Esther Friedman, Amar Hamoudi, and
Douglas McKee!
5/12/05
CCPR Seed Grants Awardees:
Congratulations to the following faculty who have been awarded Seed
Grants to support pilot research:
Mattias Doepke
(Economics Department): "Investing in Patience"
Andrew Fuligni
(Psychology/Psychiatry Department): "Daily Adaptation in Mexican Immigrant
Families"
Dawn Upchurch
(Community Health Services Department): "Acupuncture Use in the US: An Analysis
of the 2002 National Health Interview Survey"
Hewlett TIPS Awardees for 2005-2006:
Congratulations to the following graduate students who have been awarded small
grants to support their research by our Training in International Population
Studies program funded by the Hewlett Foundation.
Anna D'Souza:
"Resource Sharing Within Extended Families: Evidence from Indonesia"
Sabrina Fernandes: "Multilevel
Analysis of Fertility in India: Exploring Macro-Micro Linkages"
Amar Hamoudi:
"Assessing the Validity of Current and Recent Historical Demographic Data From
Iraq"
Yao Lu: "The Other
Face of Migration: How Do Labor Migration and Remittances Affect Children's
Education in South Africa"
Vida Maralani:
"Demographic Aspects of Intergenerational Transmission: Women's Schooling and
the Schooling of the Next Generation"
Douglas McKee:
"Retirement Behavior in Indonesia"
Illiana Reggio:
"Choosing Children's Labor in Mexican Households"
Jennifer Simmons:
"The Connection Between Men's Perception of Domestic Violence and Their HIV
Risk, Belize 1999"
Hector
Valdes-Conroy: "The Role of Attitudes Toward Risk in the Decision to Migrate"
Yang Sao Xiong:
"Access to Housing and Hmong Families' Residential and Socioeconomic Mobility"
Qiong Zhou: "Living
Arrangements of Widowed Oldest Old Women, China"
5/11/05
Multiple
congratulations are in order for:
Congratulations to Prof. William Clark has been elected to the
National Academy of Sciences!!!
This is terrific news and a very well-deserved honor.
Congratulations to Amada Armenta who has been awarded an ASA Minority
Fellowship for Predoctoral Studies!!!
4/14/05
Congratulations to Charles Strohm on receiving a
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!!!
3/8/05
**Congratulations**
to Matthias Doepke who was selected an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
for 2005-2007. The Sloan Fellowship is awarded to the most promising
young scholars in the sciences, including economics, and is a terrific
and well-deserved accolade.
**Congratulations**
to Chikako Yamauchi who was awarded a grant by the Department of Labor
to study the impact on child labor of an anti-poverty program in
Indonesia.
**Congratulations**
to David Cook who
has accepted an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the period
September 2005 to August 2007. He will be based at UC Irvine and will
continue research on "return" migration from Latin America to Spain and
Italy with the help of Kitty Calavita, a scholar who has done extensive
work on immigration policies in these two Southern European countries.
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