DuPRI Faculty Spotlight: Jenny Tung, PhD.

"Monkeys don't smoke, and they don't do yoga," says Jenny Tung. But monkeys do experience the kind of psychosocial stress that can drive humans to embrace both of those coping mechanisms. Read the full article

DuPRI Faculty Awarded $2.8 Million to Study Gene Effects of Stress

Jenny Tung, Faculty Associate at DuPRI and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences totaling $2.8 million. Read the full article

Supercentenarian Researchers Meet in Rome

Over two full and lively days, researchers from Europe, Scandinavia, the U.S., Canada, Japan and Brazil presented their latest data and analyses of the phenomenon of "supercentenarians" — people who reach the age of 110 or more. Read the full article

Anatoliy Yashin Receives Sheps Award for Mathematical Demography

Anatoliy I. Yashin, Scientific Director of the DuPRI Center for Population Health and Aging, received the Mindel C. Sheps Award in San Francisco for his contributions to the methodological foundations of demography. Read the full article

DuPRI Faculty Spotlight: M. Giovanna Merli, Ph.D.

In a recent interview, DuPRI Associate Director M. Giovanna Merli explains how she blends classical demographic methods with tools like social network modeling to challenge assumptions about the world’s most populous country. Read the full article

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The Duke University Population Research Institute (DuPRI) is an interdisciplinary research organization bringing together researchers from the biological, economic, mathematical, psychological, statistical, sociological, and policy sciences at Duke.

The Institute seeks to advance science in the area of demography and population science, as well as expand the current boundaries of demographic investigation.

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The DuPRI Population Research Seminar meets weekly during the academic year to bring together faculty from across campus in the Population Sciences. The seminar is a format that allows the Duke community to hear cutting edge research from nationally and internationally renowned scholar and serves as a forum for interdisciplinary exchange.

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Announcements

2013-03-01
4th Annual IGSS Conference, Boulder, CO, October 10-12, 2013
The Institute of Behavioral Science and University of Colorado Population Center are hosting the 4th annual Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences Conference.
2013-01-15
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Harvard SPH Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA)
Qualified applicants are sought for one year post-doctoral fellowships in the Economics and Demography of Aging to begin September 2013. The successful post-doctoral fellows will continue his/her training through a one-year fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Department of Global Health and Population.
2013-01-14
PAA 2013 Annual Meeting
Registration is now officially open for this year's Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, which will be taking place April 11-13 in New Orleans. Are you a DuPRI student that is interested in attending? Let us help!