Member News

After some thorough research on the benefits of marriage for health and longevity, Stan Panis is getting married to Christina Ljungqvist. Christina is a chemical engineer and works on environmental issues. The wedding will take place on August 22 in a nice old castle in Skåne, Sweden.

Giuseppe De Bartolo was re-elected Director of Dipartimento di Economia Politica, at University of Calabria, Italy for the next three academic years, beginning November 1997.

Effective October 1, 1997, Valentino M. Lema was appointed Head (Chairman) of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.

Paul Glick will receive an honorary doctorate from Pennsylvania State University on May 16 for his pioneering multidisciplinary research on the family life cycle, his development and innovative use of census statistics to monitor family change in the United States, and his contributions to sociological practice. He is widely regarded as the "father of family demography."

On April 28, Doug Massey was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, along with 59 other new members and 15 foreign associates, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Lydia Marie Duryea Waidmann was born to Suzanne Duryea and Tim Waidmann on April 26, weighing in at 6 lbs, 5 oz. She joins big sister Elena who already can't wait to babysit.

Susan Newcomer became a grandma (again) with the arrival of Emma Josephine in Prague in February.

Ellen Kramerow, Jared Garelick, and Hersh welcomed Hanna Lena Garelick into the world on March 17. Hanna weighed 6 lbs, 10 oz at birth.

Hans Johnson and Bettina Nicely had a second child on February 16. Blake Connor Johnson weighed 4 lbs 6 ozs at birth and is now 9 lbs and doing well. Blake's older brother Alexander is 4 years old.

Patricia East Ganelin and her husband Bill's son, Steven Samuel, was born on December 12 weighing in at 9 lbs 10 oz. He's as healthy as they come and is already scooting backwards.

Patricia David has joined the Population Reference Bureau from the University of London.

Donald C. Dahmann has moved from the Population Division of the Bureau of the Census to a professorship at George Washington University's Department of Geography in Washington, D.C.

Bob Schoeni will be taking a one-year leave from RAND, from July 1998 to June 1999, to work as a Senior Economist with President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors in Washington, D.C.

Lee Lillard will move from RAND to Ann Arbor September 1, 1998, as Professor of Economics and Senior Research Scientist at ISR, University of Michigan.

Kimberly Crews, formerly the Director of Public Education Programs at the Population Reference Bureau, has joined the Census Publicity Office at the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Donald J. Hernandez, currently with the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine, will join the faculty of the SUNY Albany as Professor of Sociology and Associate with the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis in the fall of 1999.