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| Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Manges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder |  |
Jennifer Karas Montez Elected Student Representative to ASA Section Council Jennifer Karas Montez was recently elected as the Student Representative to the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and Life Course. |
Catherine Riegle-Crumb's Research Featured on "Science Careers" Catherine Riegle-Crumb is quoted in an article about underrepresentation of African-American bachelor degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. |
2008-09 Governance Committee Members Elected Four members elected to the PRC's Governance Committee for the 2008-09 academic year: Shannon Cavanagh, Toni Falbo, Cynthia Osborne, and Mark Regnerus. They join the five ex-officio members, Mark D. Hayward (Director), Stephen J. Trejo (Associate Director), R. Kelley Raley (Graduate Training Director), and Robert A. Hummer (Undergraduate Training Director). Congratulations to our new elected members. |
Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodríguez with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Lawrence S. Graham, Pedro Jacobi, and Allison M. Rowland |  |
XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference Call for Abstracts The XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference website is now open and ready to accept submissions for papers and posters. The deadline to submit short and long abstracts is September 15, 2008. The Conference will take place in Marrakech, Morocco from September 26 to October 2, 2009. Please check the Conference website regularly for more information. |  |
Professor Aletha Huston's SRCD Presidential Address Published In 2007, Dr. Aletha Huston—The Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development in the Department of Human Ecology at UT and former Associate Director of the Population Research Center—completed her two-year term as president of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), the world’s largest professional association dedicated to the study of human development. As president, Dr. Huston oversaw a membership of nearly 6,000 researchers and practitioners from over 50 countries, encouraging the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals from multiple disciplines as well as the applications of scientific research. |  |
SDA Annual Meeting Call for Abstracts The Southern Demographic Association (SDA) is soliciting abstracts for its annual meeting, to be held this October 30 through November 1, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, South Carolina. SDA is also soliciting suggestions for topics for panels and poster sessions. |  |
The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population After years of research, researchers have a grasp of some of the complex issues and social and behavioral patterns surrounding health that impact older Hispanic people, especially those of Mexican ancestry. |  |