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Editor:
Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Spring 2004
Faculty Focus
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, Demography, Human Development and Family Studies, was appointed Director of PRI's Post-Doctoral Training Program in the Demography of Aging, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, Demography, Human Development and Family Studies was elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America in recognition of his outstanding achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of Gerontology. His recognition as Fellow was announced at the GSA Annual Business meeting held November 23, 2003 in San Diego CA. Dr. Alwin has recently been appointed to GSA's Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Program Committee for the 2004 annual meeting.
Dr. David Baker, associate director, Social Science Research Institute, and professor of education and sociology, received a Fulbright grant to lecture and conduct research on Tomorrow's Citizens: A Cross-National Study of Political Development of Youth With a Focus on the German Case, Germany.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, assistant professor of anthropology and demography, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research and lecture on the development and structure of rural Oaxacan migration, Mexico.
Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography and director, Graduate Program in Demography, was named to the National Institute of Health, Social Science and Population Studies Study Section grant review panel.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, department head and professor of sociology and demography, has been invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, for the 2004-05 Academic Year.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, professor of agricultural and extension education, has been named to the following national advisory boards: Learn and Serve America Performance Measurement Expert Advisors Group; City Year; City Year Young Heroes Project; East Bay Conservation Corps -- Elementary Civic Indicators Project.
Dr. Roger Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies, is chair-elect of the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section.
Dr. Roger Finke's co-authored book Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (University of California Press, 2000) was translated into Chinese and published by the People's University Press of China, 2004.
Dr. Melissa A. Hardy has been named Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies.
Dr. Mark Hayward, director, Social Science Research Institute and professor of sociology and demography, was elected Council Chair of the Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research (2004-2006).
Dr. Phyllis Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, and director, Tremin Research Program on Women's Health, was re-elected to the Board of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research for a six-year term.
Dr. David Post, associate professor of comparative and international education, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research and lecture on the development of Hong Kong-America Center through cultivation of U.S. and Hong Kong stakeholders, Hong Kong.
Dr. Robert Schoen, Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, was the recipient of the Mindel C. Sheps Award given biennially by PAA and the UNC School of Public Health. The award is for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography, demographic methodology, and the modeling and analysis of population data.
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography, received a Fulbright grant to teach in the Demography Department at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to conduct research on fertility.
Dr. Dennis Shea, professor of health policy and administration, has been named head of the Department of Health Policy and Administration.
Dr. Elizabeth Susman, Shibley Professor of Biobehavorial Health and professor of human development and nursing, has been elected President of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
Dr. Elizabeth Susman has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Developmental Psychology.
Dr. Marylee Taylor, associate professor of sociology, and Jenna L. Aurand won an award for their poster "The Influence of Local Hispanic Population Share on White Anglos' Stereotypes of Hispanics, Views on Immigration, and Related Policy Opinions" presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, Demography, Human Development and Family Studies, presented an invited paper (with Ryan McCammon, Linda Wray and Willard Rodgers) entitled "Populations, Cohorts and Processes of Cognitive Aging" at the conference The Dynamic Processes of Ageing: The Relationships Among Cognitive, Social, Biological, Health and Economic Factors in Aging, held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, September, 2003. Dr. Alwin also presented an invited paper (with Ryan McCammon, Linda Wray and Willard Rodgers) entitled "The Consequences of Attrition for Estimates of Parameters in Latent Growth Models of Cognitive Aging" at a Symposium on Modern Methods for the Study of Cognitive Aging Phenomena held at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America in San Diego CA, November, 2003.
Dr. Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and industrial relations and women's studies, made the following invited presentations: "Family/Work Policies and Practices," invited presentation for National Science Foundation ADVANCE Conference, Georgia Tech University, April 2004; "Bias Against Caregiving and Gender Equity in the Academy: Harsh Realities and Opportunities," keynote speech, Women's Studies Conference, Texas Tech University, April 2004; "Work, Family and Life in the Academy: Challenges Facing Faculty, Students and Staff and Opportunities for Change," invited lecture sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor, University of California-Davis, April 2004; "Can You Have It All? Academics Trying to Have a Family Life: Results of a National Study," invited presentation for the Medical School Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, March 2004; "How to be an Academic and Have a Life," Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Medical College of the University of Illinois-Chicago, October 2003.
Dr. George Farkas, professor of sociology, demography, and education, presented "Inequality Begins Early," an invited lecture at the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, March 26, 2004, and at the Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis, April 9, 2004.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, department head and professor of sociology and demography, presented "Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality (with an Emphasis on Population Processes)" as part of the Population Research Institute's Brown Bag Seminar Series, February 10, 2004.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, professor of agricultural and extension education, made the following invited presentations: "Raising 'the Public' in Public Education," at the Forum on Service Learning, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO, October, 2003; "Social Trust, Civic Identity, and Democratic (Public) Hope," at the International Graduate College Program on Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, November 2003; "Identity and Politics in Adolescence," Escuela de Psicologia, Universidad Catolica de Chile, January 2004; "Youth Civic Development: The Role of Service Learning," Featured Research Forum, National Service-Learning Conference, Orlando, Florida, March, 2004.
Dr. Mark Hayward, director, Social Science Research Institute and professor of sociology and demography, spoke at the Minnesota Population Center and the Population Research Center at the University of Texas on the consequences of childhood conditions for adult morbidity and mortality. In addition, Dr. Hayward was a speaker in the "Texas Health and Society" lecture series. Established in 1999, the Texas Program for Society and Health is a five member inter-institutional collaboration between Rice University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, and University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Leif Jensen, director, Population Research Institute and professor of rural sociology and demography, gave the following invited presentations: "Underemployment Across Immigrant Generations," Initiative in Population Research, The Ohio State University, December, 2003; "Changing Fortunes: Poverty in Rural America," Department of Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University, December, 2003; "Demographic Overview of Children in Rural America," National Institutes of Health workshop titled Addressing Rural Children in the National Children's Study Workshop, Washington, DC, March, 2004; "Rural Poverty Research and Practice: A Retrospective," Conference on The Importance of Place in Poverty Research and Policy: Creating a National Rural Poverty Research Agenda, Washington, DC, March, 2004.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, was invited to present "Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Well-Being" on March 5, 2004 as part of the Carolina Population Center Colloquium Series at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and on March 22, 2004 as part of the Center for Family and Demographic Research Colloquium Series at Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Stephen Matthews, associate professor of geography, demography, and sociology, and director of the GIA Core, was an invited presenter at the workshop on "Spatial Information Science for Human and Social Sciences" held at the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, January 29-30, 2004.
Dr. Sean F. Reardon, assistant professor of education and sociology, made the following invited presentations: "Sources of Educational Inequality: The Growth of Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Test Score Gaps in Kindergarten and First Grade," an invited talk at the National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellows Meeting, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, March 6, 2004; "Using Propensity Score Matching and Growth Models to Study School Effects on Academic Achievement," an invited talk at Stanford University School of Education, Palo Alto, CA, February, 2004; and "The Limits of Income Desegregation Policies for Achieving Racial Desegregation," (with J. T. Yun and M. Kurlaender), University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, IL, January, 2004.
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