Seth Sanders Selected as New Director of DuPRI
The Provost’s Office has named Economics Professor Seth Sanders as the new director of the Duke University Population Research Institute (DuPRI), an affiliate of the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). Sanders takes over for James Vaupel, the founding DuPRI director, who took key steps toward integrating population sciences at Duke. Sanders was a consensus choice among DuPRI researchers to succeed Vaupel and was recommended by a 2008-2009 DuPRI search committee headed by Joe Hotz.
About DuPRI
DuPRI -- The Duke Population Research Institute – has been created to bring together the many faculty and post-doctoral researchers at Duke who are already involved in innovative interdisciplinary population research investigations. DuPRI's goals are:
- to organize the breadth and depth of population research at Duke into a synergistic whole much greater than the sum of its parts,
- to attract to the Duke faculty some of the field's most highly acclaimed researchers as well as some of the field's most outstanding new talent, and
- to expand the intellectual activity at Duke devoted to population research in the classroom as well as in the laboratory and in the field.
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