Utah State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael B. Toney as the Director of its Population Research Laboratory (PRL).
John Wilmoth obtained tenure at UC Berkeley. His main areas of research are oldage mortality, and mortality change in general.
Wayne W. McVey, Jr. was elected President of the Canadian Population Society. He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta.
Demographers dominate departments at Penn...As of July 1, Mark Rosenzweig is Chair of the Economics Department, Doug Massey is Chair of the Sociology Department, and Sam Preston is Director of the Population Studies Center.
Since January 1995, Maria Krysan, now at Penn State, has had a Russell Sage Foundation grant to study housing preferences using data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality.
Michael Micklin starts September 3rd as the Scientific Review Administrator for NIH's Human Development (Subcommittee 2) review group. His background is in human ecology, demography, and gerontology.
Parker Frisbie, Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin is experiencing a mini population explosion. Parker and his wife Elaine are the proud grandparents of four granddaughters all under two years of age (with no multiple births!). Chandler Clare and Darby Ann were born to their son, in 1994 and 1996. Lauren Nicole and Lindsay Michelle were born to their daughter in 1994 and 1995. Parker wishes all his cows would reproduce in such a frequent and systematic manner.
Susan Newcomer, PAA Affairs Co-editor, thinks she may have to learn Czech to talk with her grandson, Milan, born in Prague in 1994 to her daughter and Czech son-in-law.
Mike Pergamit moves to NORC in September as Research Vice President for Economic Studies.
Karen A. WoodrowLafield joins the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Mississippi State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 1996, leaving the Population Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin.
Wang Feng is leaving the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the EastWest Center to join the Department of Sociology at the University of California Irvine this fall.
Lingxin Hao, formerly with the Sociology Department at the University of Iowa, has joined the Sociology Department at Johns Hopkins University.
Joan Kaufman will become the Reproductive Health Program Officer of the Rockefeller Foundation in Beijing, starting September 1, moving from her position as Senior Associate at Abt Associates and Lecturer in Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sara Curran, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Josh Goldstein, Alex Portes and Linda Potter will be joining the Princeton faculty in September of 1996.
Charles Wood is moving from the University of Texas, Austin to the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Sharon Sassler has moved from Johns Hopkins to Wellesley as Assistant Professor of Sociology.
After October 1, Mark Van Landingham, a post-doc at University of Washington, will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Galveston.
Jennifer Strickler has moved from Tulane University's School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine to the Department of Sociology, University of Vermont, Burlington.