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PRI Brown Bag Series: 2005-2006

Date Speaker Topic
September 27, 2005 Leif Jensen, Director, Population Research Institute; and Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University An Update on PRI and the R24 Renewal
October 4, 2005 Gary King, Associate Professor of Biobehavorial Health, The Pennsylvania State University Demographic Characteristics and Disparities in Smoking Cessation Among African Americans and Whites
October 11, 2005 George Farkas, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Education, The Pennsylvania State University How Educational Inequality Develops
October 25, 2005 Cynthia Lloyd, Director of Social Science Research, Policy Research Division, The Population Council Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Highlights from NRC/IOM Panel Report
November 8, 2005 Glenn Firebaugh, Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University The Evolution of Global Inequality: Trends for Income and Age at Death
November 15, 2005 Felicia LeClere, Associate Research Scientist and Director, Data Sharing for Demographic Research, ICPSR, University of Michigan Data Sharing for Demographic Research
December 13, 2005 Samuel Preston, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania Changing Sex Differentials in Mortality in the United States: The Role of Cohort Smoking Histories
February 21, 2006 Cindy Brewer, Associate Professor of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University Map Design for Demographic Data
March 21, 2006 Leslie McCall, Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Do They Know and Do They Care? Americans' Awareness of Rising Inequality
April 11, 2006 Lawrence Wu, Professor of Sociology, New York University Historical Roots of Family Diversity: Marital and Childbearing Trajectories of American Women
April 25, 2006 Carol S. Weisman, Professor of Health Evaluation Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Pennsylvania State University The Central Pennsylvania Women's Health Study

** All seminars are held at 12:00 in 302 Pond Lab unless otherwise indicated.

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