November 16, 2009
Family history quickest, cheapest way to predict long-term mental illness~ By Kendall Morgan
We’ve all been asked at routine visits to the doctor to record our family’s history with medical problems like cancer, diabetes or heart disease. But when it comes to mental disorders, usually mum’s the word.
November 11, 2009
Call for papers to use new data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics' Child Development Supplement (CDS) and Transition into Adulthood (TA) study. A conference highlighting new results from the data will be held in Ann Arbor June 3-4, 2010 featuring papers submitted in response to this call.
Scholars in all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts (500 words) for research using the new data from the CDS and/or TA for inclusion as either papers or posters in the workshop sessions. Abstracts of 500 words are due December 18, 2009.
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/Publications/CallforPapersFinal.pdf
October 30, 2009
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
October 23, 2009
The Duke Center on the Demography of Aging (DCDA) -- a research effort within the Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI) and an SSRI affiliate -- promotes research into the biological demography and biomedical demography of aging and longevity. This NIA-funded Center is seeking proposals for pilot and/or feasibility projects (small-scale research projects).
Topics of high interest to the Center include:
The impact of early vs. later life events on health and survival in late life.
October 20, 2009
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.
June 28, 2009
Professors Zeng Yi (Duke Medical Center) and M. Giovanna Merli (Public Policy Studies and the Duke Global Health Institute) are both leading successful investigations into important Chinese population issues. Zeng Yi, a Duke professor with an appointment also at Peking University, focuses on healthy longevity and aging in China, while Merli, who has spent several years in China (especially in Nanjing) and who has just joined the Duke faculty, researches both HIV spread in China and the fertility preferences of Chinese women.
November 13, 2008
Many DuPRI faculty members and associates, 14 in all, are involved in the publishing life of the highly prestigious scientific journal Demography one of the oldest journals in the social sciences.
November 13, 2008
Meet Some Mathematical Demographers!
What organization at Duke is exceptional in mathematical and statistical demography? The answer is DuPRI.
Demographers have developed powerful methods of mathematical modeling and analysis based on theorems about how measures of population structure and dynamics are inter-related. Demography also derives great strength from statistical data and statistical methods. Demographers are blessed with reams of information gathered by government officials and via surveys. And demographers can apply sophisticated methods of statistical inference to these data, methods that in some cases have been partially developed by demographers here at Duke.
