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Editor:
Tonya Allen
allen@pop.psu.edu
PRInformation
Spring 2003
Faculty Focus
New Faculty Associates
Dr. Scott Hofer (Ph.D., 1994, Psychology, University of Southern California), assistant professor of human development and family studies. Research interests: Individual differences in lifespan development and aging (cognitive capabilities, biological and functional aging, longitudinal studies of aging); structure and measurement of personality and cognitive capabilities; multivariate methodology (longitudinal design and analysis, treatment of incomplete data, analysis of genetically informative data).
Dr. Sibylle Kranz (Ph.D., 2002, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), assistant professor of nutritional sciences. Research interests: Dietary intake patterns and diet quality in American children using large, nationally representative datasets and the effect of dietary intake factors on the development of childhood obesity.
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology and demography, received the Distinction in the Social Sciences Award, The College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, March 27, 2003.
Dr. David P. Baker, Associate Director, Social Science Research Institute, and professor of education and sociology, Gerald K. LeTendre, and Brian Goesling received the 2002-2003 Outstanding International Study of the Year Award from the American Education Research Association for their article, "Socioeconomic Status, School Quality, and National Economic Development: A Cross-National Analysis of the 'Heyneman-Loxley Effect' on Mathematics and Science Achievement," published in the journal Comparative Education Review.
Dr. Leif I. Jensen, Director, Population Research Institute, and professor of rural sociology and demography, received the 2003 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award from The Pennsylvania State University. The award recognizes outstanding teaching performance and advising of doctoral students.
Dr. Leif I. Jensen, Director, Population Research Institute, and professor of rural sociology and demography, has been selected as NIEHS Reviewer on the R21 Health, Environment and Economic Development Panel.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development & family studies, is a 2003 invited member of The Brookdale Institute on Aging.
Dr. Nancy S. Landale, professor of sociology and demography, has been appointed to the Panel on Transforming Our Common Destiny: Hispanics in the U.S., a new committee of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. The appointment is from 2003-2005.
Dr. Barrett A. Lee, professor of sociology and demography, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society for the term 2003-2006, and has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the new ASA-sponsored journal Contexts for the term 2003-2005.
Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of demography and sociology (adjunct geography), and director of the GIA Core, has been selected as NIEHS Reviewer on the R21 Health, Environment and Economic Development Panel.
Dr. Suet-ling Pong, associate professor of education and demography, is Deputy Editor of the journal Sociology of Education.
Dr. Robert Schoen, Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, is currently Chair of the Clifford C. Clogg Award Committee of the Population Association of America. The award commemorates the contributions of Clifford C. Clogg, the renowned expert in quantitative methods and labor force demography at Penn State.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology and demography, presented "Strengthening Two-Parent Families" at the National Conference of State Legislators, Milwaukee, December 5, 2002; and "The Transmission of Marital Discord and Divorce Across Generations" at the University of Austin-Texas, November 8, 2002.
Dr. Alan Benjamin, research associate and affiliate professor of Jewish studies, presented an invited lecture on January 7, 2003 at both the Ft. Wayne and Upland, Indiana campuses of Taylor University for their capstone senior seminar on the family. The lecture was entitled "Family Values and the Structural Value of Low-Income Urban Families." On April 1, 2003, Dr. Benjamin presented a distinguished lecture at Haverford College entitled "Ethnic Identity in Context and as Process: Ethnographic Lessons from Jews in Curaçao."
Dr. Gordon De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, was invited to present "Determinants of Migration Intentions in South Africa" at the Human Sciences Research Council Migration Workshop, Government of South Africa, Pretoria.
Dr. Gordon De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, and Dr. Deborah Graefe, research associate of the Population Research Institute, presented "Public Assistance and the Immigrant Family after Welfare Reform: Transitions in Recipiency" at the 24 Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Dr. George Farkas, professor of sociology, demography, and education, was Invited Organizer and Discussant, Roundtable Discussion on "How Can We Improve the Life Chances of Low-Income Children?" at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Association, Feb. 28, 2003, Philadelphia.
Dr. E. Michael Foster, associate professor of health policy and administration and demography, presented "Economic Evaluation of Mental Health Services and Interventions for Children and Youth" at the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, Kings College, University of London, in September, 2002. Dr. Foster also presented "The Full Costs of the System of Care: Cost-Shifting Across Child-Serving Sectors" at the Maxwell School of Public Policy, Syracuse University, September, 2002.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development & family studies, was invited to present "The Impact of Child Support Payments by Nonresident Fathers on Child Well-Being: Theories and Evidence" at the 35th Annual Domestic Relations Association of Pennsylvania Training Conference, Oct. 28, 2002.
Dr. R. Barry Ruback, professor of crime, law and justice, presented "Crowding in South Asia: A Multimethod Investigation" to the Department of Psychology, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, on February 15, 2003.
Dr. Pamela Farley Short, Director, Center for Health Care and Policy Research, and professor of health policy and administration and demography, was an invited guest on To the Best of My Knowledge, Penn State President Graham Spanier's monthly call-in radio program, on March 25, 2003. The program topic was "Health Care for the Uninsured."
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