Event Archives


November 28, 2007

Department of Geography/PRC Job Talk
"Geographies of Obesity: Gender and Space in Morocco and India"

Adina Batnitzky
Oxford University


July 9, 2007

Second Summer Session Begins


July 6, 2007

First Summer Session Ends


May 31, 2007

First Summer Session Begins


May 19, 2007

Spring Commencement


May 4, 2007

Spring Classes End


May 4, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
"Short Sleep, A New Lifestyle Risk Factor: Is Prevalence Really Increasing?"

Diane Lauderdale
University of Chicago, Health Studies, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division


April 27, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
“Sibship Characteristics and Transitions to First Marriage and Parenthood: The Case of Taiwan"

Wei-Hsin Yu
PRC Research Associate and Department of Sociology


April 20, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar


Harold Lentzner and Elsie Pamuk
National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


April 13, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
"Personal Health and Spousal Work and Earnings"

Patrick Krueger
PRC Research Associate and University of Texas School of Public Health, Division of Management, Policy and Community Health


April 6, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
“Trends, Priorities, and Opportunities for Federal Funding in the area of Population Health”

Michael Spittel
NICHD, Program Officer


March 30, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar


No Brown Bag - PAA Meeting, New York


March 23, 2007

Conference


Challenges, Choices and Context: Health Behaviors in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Organized by Professors Michele Rivkin Fish (University of North Carolina) and Cynthia Buckley (Texas), the conference focuses upon exploring the ways in which cultural, political and economic factors shape health behaviors and health related practices within Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Through workshop meetings and an afternoon public forum on Friday March 23rd, an international and interdisciplinary group of 17 scholars will engage in critical dialogues concerning the way in which health choices are structured, constrained, and enabled by forces beyond the individual, in an attempt to contextualize and structure assessments of health "crises" within the region.


March 23, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
“Are Marital Status Differences in Health Increasing or Decreasing by Cohort? An Examination by Race and Gender for Younger Adults” presented by Cathy Liu and “Going Most of the Way: ‘Technical Virginity’ Among Young Americans” presented by Jeremy Uecker

PRC Graduate Students


March 21, 2007

Panel: Labor Migration in Latin America


"Employment and Income of Labor Migrants in Buenos Aires"
Marcela Cerrutti, Long Visiting Professor, LLILAS and Sociology; and Centro de Estudios de Población, Buenos Aires

"'Baianos"' in São Paulo: Internal Migration and the Working Class Culture and Politics During the 1950's"

Paulo Fontes, Visiting Associate Researcher, Princeton University and Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo
"Internal Migration Clusters in Brazil: An Analysis of Areas of Origin and Destination"

Ernesto Amaral, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology


Moderated by Joseph Potter, Population Research Center


March 16, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar


No Brown Bag - Spring Break


March 9, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
"Segmented Assimilation in the Long Run? The Socioeconomic Attainments of Native Americans"

Art Sakamoto, Kimberly Huyser, and Isao Takei
PRC and Department of Sociology


March 2, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
"Do Kin Networks Contribute to Black-White Differences in Marriage and Cohabitation?"

Kelly Raley
PRC Research Associate and Department of Sociology


February 23, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
"Perceptions of Disorder: Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Subjective Perceptions of Disorder"

Luisa Franzini
University of Texas School of Public Health, Management, Policy, and Community Health/Health Economics


February 16, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
"Migration in the Southern Cone: Gender and Remittances of Paraguayan Migrants in Argentina"

Marcela Cerrutti
Visiting Professor, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies


February 14, 2007

Reproductive Health Symposium


Kristine Hopkins, Lynn Rew, John Robertson

Open symposium highlighting reproductive health research across the 40 acres.

Join us for a discussion of emerging issues, perspectives, and challenges in this important area of research.


February 9, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
Latina Mothers' Parenting and Girls' Anxiety and Depression in an Urban Sample: Associations with Ethnic Identity and Neighborhood Context

Angelica Ware
PRC NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow


February 2, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
Cultural Marginality and Depressive Symptoms in Asian American Family Members

Su Yeong Kim
PRC Research Associate and Department of Human Development and Family Studies


January 26, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
A Consilient Theory of Social and Demographic Change

Philip Morgan
Duke University, Department of Sociology


January 19, 2007

Brown Bag Seminar
The Only Child: Myths and Realities

Toni Falbo
PRC Research Associate and Department of Sociology


January 16, 2007

Spring Classes Begin


December 8, 2006

Fall Classes End


December 8, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Affairs of the Heart: Qualities of Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Sexual Behavior"

Peggy Giordano
Bowling Green University


December 1, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Eat, drink, and be marry(ied): Marital status, marital transitions, and eating behavior"

Debra Umberson and Hui Liu
PRC Faculty Research Associate; PRC Trainee, PhD Candidate, both in Dept. of Sociology


November 17, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
Work Family Conflict and Gender Equity Across Classes

Gretchen Ritter
PRC Faculty Research Associate, Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, and Dept. of Government


November 10, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Fragile Families: The First Five Years"

Sara McLanahan
Princeton University


October 27, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Neighborhood Poverty Concentration on Initiation of Sex among Adolescents"

Catherine Cubbin
PRC Faculty Research Associate and UC-San Francisco


October 20, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans"

Steve Trejo
PRC Faculty Research Associate and Dept. of Economics


October 13, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Racial and Ethnic Differences In Parent-Child Relationships: Does Mixed Race Matter?"

Holly Heard
Rice University


October 7, 2006

3rd Conference of Texas Brazilianists


The event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.

Sponsored by the Brazil Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.


October 6, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Competitive Spirits in Brazil: A Test Using Census Data"

Joseph E. Potter and Sarah A. McKinnon
PRC and Dept. of Sociology


September 29, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Can Parental and Peer Influences Explain Inequality in Test Performance between Whites and Asian Americans?"

Keith Robinson
University of Michigan

Hosted by the Department of Sociology


September 22, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis"

Ronald Angel
PRC Faculty Research Associate and Dept. of Sociology


September 15, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Voices in the Wilderness: Religious Congregations and HIV-Risk Behaviors in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa"

Jenny Trinitapoli
PRC Trainee and Dept. of Sociology


September 8, 2006

Lecture
"Women in Science and Engineering: Network Access, Participation, and Career Outcomes"

Sharon Mastracci
Univ. of Illinois- Chicago

The lecture will discuss research that Dr. Mastracci is currently conducting as part of a three year project that is being funded by the National Science Foundation.

Sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, along with the Office of Graduate Studies and the Population Research Center.


September 8, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar
"Fall 2006 Brown Bag Kickoff"

Mark D. Hayward
Director, Population Research Center and Dept. of Sociology

*Pizza and drinks will be served starting at 11:30 am*

**Originally scheduled for 9/1**


August 30, 2006

Fall Classes Begin


May 19, 2006

Spring Commencement


May 12, 2006

Special Lecture in Sociology
"Gender Differences in the Effects of Religious Conservatism"

Jennifer Glass
University of Iowa

Dr. Glass is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include work and family life, gender stratification, organizations, and mental health. She is currently researching the effects of family-responsive policies on mothers' earnings.

We hope you can join us for this special event.


May 8, 2006

Extended Deadline
For Submission of abstracts to Asociacion Latinoamericana de Poblacion annual meeting


October 12, 2005

Methods Workshop
Getting Started with STATA

Dan Powers
Department of Sociology and Faculty Research Associate, PRC

This talk provides an introduction to using STATA on the LACIL and PRC UNIX servers. Topics to be discussed will include the use of utilities like secure-shell (SSH) to connect PCs to UNIX services and the use of X-windows emulators to allow the display and use of STATA's graphical user interface on PCs. The help system, reading and saving data, memory management, and some procedures for data management will be discussed and demonstrated. Some statistical procedures/models will be discussed and demonstrated if time permits.

Events prior to Fall 2006

2005-2006