PSC News

Linda Aiken is quoted in new article "Study Provides First Evidence for American Nurses Credentialing Center Pathway to Excellence Program in Home Care".

Penn News features the Quartet Pilot Program winners and the program is discussed by Irma Elo and Kevin Volpp: Six Research Projects at Penn Bolstered Through Quartet Pilot Competition Funding.

Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff are featured on the University website this week after speaking about the relationship between genetic classifications and race.

Angela Duckworth's role as an academic advisor is discussed in an Omnia article about "Creating Intellectual Risk Takers."

Yana Vierboom authors a new working paper in the PSC/PARC Working Paper series in the Scholarly Commons entitled "The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States."

Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund, who was the recent keynote speaker at the Perry World House Global Shifts Conference (pictured here with PSC Director Herb Smith) has died. He was a strong advocate of reproductive and population health. He is already missed.

Iourii Manovskii and Irma T. Elo have been instrumental in getting Penn involved in the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) which was highligted in the Omnia article "Penn Partnering with Census Bureau for Research."

Last week students, staff and faculty gathered to celebrate the influential and wonderful Grace Kao at the University of Pennsylvania! Kao has been a Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies since 1997 and has touched the lives of many. Grace will soon be moving to Yale so to say goodbye and good luck a few of her students and colleagues shared words of encouragement and gratefulness. Thank you, Grace, for all that you have done here and we wish you the best! Here are some photos.

Onoso Imoagene spoke with Omnia last week about her new book "Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain."

Last week it was the pleasure of many esteemed colleagues to gather for a presentation about the Challenge of Cities in honor of Janice Madden's retirement. The talks were followed by a lively cocktail party to celebrate Janice's long and fruitful career. Feel free to take a look at the wonderful photos (credit to Marcus Wright) http://bit.ly/2q87oxs

Herb Smith participated in the annual Global Shifts conference as an expert and discussant.

Herb Smith, director of the Population Studies Center, co-authored a paper at Session 147 Improving Health and Mortality Measures this year at PAA.

Jere R. Behrman, the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, received the biennial Irene B. Taeuber 2017 award at the Population Association of America Annual Meetings in Chicago on 28 April. The Irene B. Taeuber award is presented in recognition of an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study of population, or for an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and innovative research. Behrman’s research is in empirical micro economics, economic development, early childhood development, labor economics, human resources (education, training, health, nutrition), economic demography, household behaviors, life-cycle and intergenerational relations and policy evaluation. His network of collaborators spans the globe, ranges across multiple disciplines, and includes scholars from all career stages. He has published 415 articles in leading demographic, economic, sociology, public health, nutritional and biomedical journals and 35 books, and served on 157 Ph.D dissertation committees.
Penn faculty and alumni were very present during the awards ceremony: Jere R. Behrman was presented the Irene B. Taeuber award (by Douglas Massey, a Penn alumnus). The Dorothy Swaine Thomas award is named after a former Penn faculty and first woman president of the American Sociological Association. The Harriet B. Presser award recipient, Frances Goldscheider, is a Penn alumna; so too is Robert J. Lapham award recipient was Cheikh Mbacke, a Penn alumnus.  Cheikh could not attend, so this award was accepted by Ayagah Bawah, another Penn alumnus. Penn News also covered this occassion.

Photo credit: Art Antonik 

Demography Ph.D. candidate Jeylan Erman's article, "Parental Separation and School Performance Among Children of Immigrant Mothers in Sweden," has been published in the European Journal of Population.

Daniel Aldana Cohen is featured in the OMNIA podcast "The Politics of Climate Change".

Kathryn Bowles has been selected for induction to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.

Sam Preston is quoted in new U.S. Health News article about the diabetes death toll.

Sam Preston is quoted in new Washington Post article about declining Life Expectancy in the U.S.

Kevin Volpp is featured in a new Prevention Health Research at Penn video.

Tomorrow the Perry World House Seminar Series: “The Demographic Logic of War, Peace, and Politics in Multi-ethnic States” by Margarita Konaev

Richard Berk is quoted in recent Washington Post article about government data.

Daniel Polsky is quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer article about his research and data collection that monitors the Affordable Care Act.

Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes are quoted in Penn Current article and Penn News Today about a study focused on the deadliness of diabetes.

Herb Smith and Emilio Parrado participated in the experts meetings for the Global Shifts Conference at Perry World House. The two-day conference is structured to advance substantive, policy-relevant work and public awareness around the pressing global challenges at the intersections of urbanization, migration and demography. Displacement to development: How marginalization and inequality shape Global Shifts, is an invitation-only experts meeting, convening a select group of scholars, policymakers, and practicioners for a series of substantive conversations looking at the ways in which marginalization and inequality shape global shifts. Smith was a discussant with the keynote speaker Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. In the afternoon Emilio Parrado discussed strengthening urban inclusion of refugee and migrant populations with Ahmet İçduygu, Kathleen Newland, Anne Richard, and Hilmar von Lojewski.