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Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Spring 2006
Note from the Director
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Nancy Landale, Professor of Sociology and Demography, has accepted the position of Director of Penn State's Population Research Institute. Nancy is the fifth director since PRI was established as an NICHD-supported population center in 1991, and the eighth since the founding of a formal population research program in 1972.
Nancy received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. After three years on the faculty at the University of Chicago, she joined the Sociology Department at Penn State in 1990. Over the years Nancy has been a highly active researcher within PRI. In collaboration with colleagues she has garnered over four million dollars in grants from NICHD to support her demographic research. Nancy also has played a key role in graduate training in PRI's dual-title Ph.D. program in demography. She has taught many of PRI's demography students about fertility, family demography, and race, ethnicity and family processes.
Nancy is a nationally recognized scholar in a number of areas including family demography, immigration, race and ethnicity, and morbidity and mortality. In collaboration with Dr. R. Salvador Oropesa, her students and others, Landale has built a vast body of new knowledge about the demography of Puerto Ricans and other Latino groups in the United States. Author of over 50 research articles and book chapters, her recent work has explored infant health and mortality, union dissolution, race-ethnic self-identification, father involvement, migration, and poverty among Puerto Ricans. Her scholarly leadership in these areas can be seen in her membership on National Academies panels, most recently that on Hispanics in the United States.
I would like to express our collective thanks to Nancy for taking on the leadership of one of the nation's premier population research and training centers. I also owe a great debt of gratitude to PRI's core directors, staff, graduate students, and faculty. The past three or more years have been exciting and challenging times for PRI, as we have adjusted to the creation and development of the Social Science Research Institute. With this transition now behind us, Nancy and PRI's leadership will be well positioned to guide us to even greater prominence in the population sciences. Thanks to all of you who contributed over the past three years and, on Nancy's behalf, thanks in advance for your continued hard work and involvement in the years ahead.
Leif I. Jensen
Director
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