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Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Associate Professor of Sociology, writes in Population Research and Policy Review that the number of Mexican-Americans known to be legally in the U.S.
Guidance on Resumption of NIH Extramural Activities Following the Recent Lapse in Appropriations (NOT-OD-14-003) Office of the Director, NIH. This is the latest news we have about operations at NIH after the shutdown.

Kaare Christensen, research scientist with the DUPRI Center for Population Health and Aging, is featured by BBCNews.com for his comparison of Danish nonagenarians born a decade apart.

Jacob Vigdor, Sanford School of Public Policy professor, discusses immigrant integration with the Christian Science Monitor newspaper and others. His “assimilation index,” described in a March report for the Manhattan Institute, reviews recent trends in immigration to the U.S.

Dan Belsky, a DuPRI postdoctoral fellow, led a study of asthma risk featured by Medical News Today and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal.

Ryan Brown, an economics doctoral candidate in DuPRI’s National Institute on Aging-funded training program, has received the Minnesota Population Center's

Nicholas Carnes, Sanford School of Public Policy assistant professor, provoked discussions by American Public Media’s “Marketplace” and others in May and June with his “thought experiment” on the prospect of a millionaires’ political part

Patrick Bayer, Duke Economics chair and professor, was featured by Chicago Magazine and other outlets for his working paper showing that blacks and Hispanics may pay thousands of dollars more than white buyers for comparable houses, and t

"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.