Bryce Bartlett, a PhD candidate in sociology and trainee in the demography of aging, along with his coauthor, Cyrus Schliefer received an award at the Population Association of America's 2016 annual meeting for their poster: "
Assistant Research Professor Daniel Belsky has been named a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellow for 2016–18. Fellowships are internationally competitive, and awarded to the most highly talented and innovative scholars working on issues related to child and youth development.
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3/23/2016
Researchers Have Collected Data On Twins, Tracking Measurements From Birth Through Adolescence. The Dataset Serves As A Treasure Trove For Geneticists And Social Scientists. Read the full article
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3/10/2016
The Duke-UNC Social and Biological Determinants of Health Working Group wrapped up the fall semester with their second meeting on December 7th.
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12/06/2015
The 23rd Annual National Symposium on Family Issues – Boys and Men in African American Families is aimed at contributing to the continuing dialogue on promoting the potential of Black boys and men, with a focus on the role of family. The 2015 symposium takes place October 26-27, in State Colleg
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10/25/2015
With support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Office of Behavioral Science and University of Colorado Population Center are hosting the 6th annual conference entitled Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences.
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10/21/2015
A September NBER working paper by Randall Akee, E. Jane Costello, and colleagues describes the power of cash to offset poverty's effects on child personality and behavior.
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10/11/2015
Joseph Lariscy, a Sociology postdoctoral fellow in DUPRI’s National Institute on Aging-funded training program, has received the Minnesota Population Center's 2014 IPUMS-USA Research Award for the "best published or
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7/19/2015
A research team led by Dan Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie Moffitt at Duke University reports that the process of aging is already highly variable among people still in their 20s and 30s Young people who are aging rapidly are already showing signs of physical and cognitive decline in the
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7/05/2015
DURHAM, N.C. -- Looking around at a 20th high school reunion, you might notice something puzzling about your classmates. Although they were all born within months of each other, these 38-year-olds appear to be aging at different rates.
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7/05/2015