Events & News

Announcements

Mark Padilla awarded Ruth Benedict Prize for book on HIV/AIDS and Caribbean male sex industry

NICHD & NIA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications being accepted for 2009 positions at PSC.

James House awarded Distinguished University Professorship

In The News

Stafford looks at how housing market collapse affects college enrollment

Smock says economic woes may deter unhappy couples from divorcing

Kristin Seefeldt's work on low-income women highlighted in NYT story

Frey attributes decreasing illegal immigration to job scarcity, not enforcement

Schoeni cited in story on 'new normal' for 20-something men

Burgard and Brand's work finds social toll for job layoffs

Lam discusses economic challenges posed by population aging in Brazil (Portuguese)

Other News

IRWG Gender and Global Health faculty seed grant applications due October 15, 2007

Eva Mueller's Life's Work was recognized at a memorial celebration on April 20, 2007. Photo slideshow.

James Lee's recent book, with Tommy Bengtsson and Cameron Campbell, "Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900" (MIT Press 2004) has won the American Sociological Association, Asian Section book award for 2005.

graphic chart of poligamy and wife obidience in islamic countires Values Surveys In Islamic Countries by Mansoor Moaddel now available as presentation slides. [May 2005]

PSC Researchers in the Media

Honors received by PSC Researchers

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Ford et al. "Cognitive & Physical Functioning at Mid-Life." PSC Research Report.

Farley, Couper & Pearson featured in Du Bois Review

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