PRI Brown Bag Series: 2007-2008
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 11, 2007 | David Baker, Professor of Education, Sociology, and Demography, Penn State | The Education Effect and Demography of Risk: Comparing Unschooled and Schooled on Everyday Reasoning and Decision Making about Alcohol and HIV |
| September 25, 2007 | Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution | 21st Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America |
| October 18, 2007 | Guillermina Jasso, Professor of Sociology, New York University | Immigration and STEM Talent |
| October 30, 2007 | Diane McLaughlin, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State; Alisha Coleman, Graduate Student in Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State | Economic Restructuring and Family Structure Change 1980-2000: A Focus on Female-Headed Families with Children |
| November 13, 2007 | Tom Weisner, Professor of Anthropology, University of California - Los Angeles | If You Work, You Should Not Be Poor: Mixed Methods Evidence from New Hope, a Successful Program of Support for Working Poor Families and Their Children |
| November 27, 2007 | Chalandra Bryant, Associate Professor of Human Development, Penn State | HEART: Helping to Examine African-American Relationship Traits |
| December 11, 2007 | Suet-ling Pong, Professor of Education, Sociology, and Demography, Penn State | Academic Performance of Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong: The Impact of Grade Retention |
| January 15, 2008 | Warren Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Penn State | The Global Family Planning Revolution: Lessons Learned |
| January 29, 2008 | Guang Guo, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Genetic Propensities, Social Contexts, and Delinquency |
| February 12, 2008 | Hobart Cleveland, III, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State | The Use of Genetically Informative Designs to Consider Third Variable Influences on Escalating Patterns of Risk Behavior from Adolescence to Young Adulthood |
| February 26, 2008 | Rukmalie Jayakody, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State | Complex Families, Multiple Partner Fertility, and Families Across Households: Implications for Marriage Promotion Efforts |
| March 18, 2008 | Jeremy Staff, Assistant Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice & Sociology, Penn State | Early Work Experiences and the Transition to Adulthood |
| March 25, 2008 | Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Oslo | Does Cohabitation Confer Less Protection Than Marriage? A Study of the Overall Mortality of Parrous Norwegian Men and Women 1988-2002 |
| April 1, 2008 | Carolyn Halpern, Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Biosocial Investigations of Healthy Sexual Development: Is Big Always Better? |
| April 15, 2008 | David Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State | Measuring Fertility Barriers in the National Survey of Fertility Barriers |
| April 29, 2008 | Wendy Manning, Professor of Sociology, Bowling Green University | Cohabitation as a Path Towards Marriage: A Qualitative Assessment |
** All seminars are held at 12:00 in 302 Pond Lab unless otherwise indicated.
