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Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Fall 2008
Articles of Interest
2008 National Symposium on Family Issues
The sixteenth annual National Symposium on Family Issues, entitled "Development of Hispanic Children in Immigrant Families: Challenges and Prospects," was held October 23-24, 2008. Lead speakers were Richard Alba, Department of Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kimberly Updegraff, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University; Carola Suarez-Orozco, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University; and Margarita Alegria, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Harvard Medical School. Please see the National Symposium on Family Issues website for schedule and registration information for the 2009 symposium.
Advanced Spatial Analysis Workshops 2008 and 2009
In June 2008 Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, associate professor of sociology, anthropology and demography and director of the GIA Core, and PRI's GIA Core hosted a five-day workshop on Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) as part of the R25 Advanced Spatial Analysis training grant from NICHD. GWR allows local, as opposed to global, spatial models to be calibrated and interesting variations in relationships to be measured and mapped. A. Stewart Fotheringham, Martin Charlton, and Chris Brunsdon, pioneers in this field and developers of the package GWR, were the lead presenters during the first three days. Later in the week all invited attendees made presentations integrating GWR in their own work. The workshop was attended by twenty-four early career population researchers from across the US.
During July 2008 a second workshop in the Advanced Spatial Analysis series was hosted by UC-Santa Barbara on spatial pattern analysis methods. Lead instructors included Art Getis, John Weeks and Jared Aldstadt.
As part of the 2009 Advanced Spatial Analysis series Penn State will host a workshop on Multi-Level and Spatial Modeling (June 21-26) with presenters to include Kelvyn Jones and S.V. (Subu) Subramanian; and UC-Santa Barbara will host a workshop on spatial econometrics (likely dates July 12-17) led by Paul Voss (Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, CPC, UNC Chapel Hill) and Katherine Curtis (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
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