Michigan’s Population Studies Center

PSC was established in 1961 and has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is one of five centers within the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR).

PSC receives core funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (P2CHD041028). The Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) , which supports research in population health, is part of PSC.

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Remembering Social Demographer,  Demographic Historian John Knodel

Remembering Social Demographer, Demographic Historian John Knodel

John Knodel, who extended the boundaries of population science, died, at 83, on January 10, in Ann Arbor. The Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan changed the way demographers think about fertility change, HIV/AIDS, aging, historical demography, and mixed methods research, and paved the…

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PSC Small Grants

Private gifts are a true investment in the research and training conducted at the Population Studies Center. They are used to support graduate students, young faculty, and international scholars, and to seed small research projects.

Currently six funds have been established at PSC. Learn more about these funds— those they honor, and the work they support– or browse all PSC Small Grants awarded.