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
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. DuPRI was created to produce highly innovative interdisciplinary research in the population sciences and to foster the development of the next generation of researchers.
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