Clifford C. Clogg Award
This award is given biennially in recognition ofdistinguished scholarship
in population statistics. Established in 1995, the award is sponsored by
the Population Association of America and the
Population Research Institute of the Pennsylvania State University.
The award honors population
professionals for innovative contributions to the design, collection,
modeling, or analysis of
population survey or census data. The award commemorates the memory
and creative
contributions of Clifford C. Clogg to the field of quantitative methods
and labor force
demography. The recipient of the 1998 Award shall have attained his
or her highest professional
degree within the past 20 years. The recipient need not be a PAA member
and can be honored
for distinguished work in the United States or other developed or developing
nations.
Nominations should include a description of the candidate s important
contributions to population
statistics, and a copy of the nominee s vita. The recipient will be
chosen by a five-member
Clifford C. Clogg Award Committee. Inquiries and letters of nominations
should be directed to
Daniel T. Lichter, Chair, Clifford C. Clogg Award Committee, Population
Research Institute,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, or to
other committee members
(Gordon DeJong, Leo Goodman, Robert Hauser, and Michael Hout).
Call for Submissions
Dorothy S. Thomas Award
Predoctoral or postdoctoral graduate students are invited to submit
papers for the
1998 Dorothy S. Thomas Award. This award has been established
by the PAA and
is presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the interrelationships
among social, economic, and demographic variables. Deadline for submission
is
January 7, 1998. The nomination letter and six copies of the paper
should be sent to:
Ellen Efron Pimentel, Chair, Dorothy S. Thomas Award Committee, University
of
Illinois-Chicago, 4112 BSB (m/c 312) 1007 W Harrison, Chicago IL 60607-7140.
Email:ellen@uic.edu.
Call for Nominations
Mindel C. Sheps Award
Nominations are invited for the 1998 Mindel C. Sheps Award in mathematical
demography and demographic methodology. This biennial award is
jointly sponsored by the PAA and the UNC School of Public Health. Individuals
should be nominated on the basis of important
contributions to knowledge either in the form of a single piece of
work or a
continuing record of high accomplishment. Nominations should be submitted
to Noreen
Goldman, Chair, Sheps Award Committee, Office of Population Research,
Princeton
University, 21 Prospect Avenue, Princeton NJ 08544.