Spring 2018 News      
 
Our spring newsletter includes highlights from the Population Association of America (PAA) meetings, updates on affiliate research and awards, and a preview of events to come this fall. For more, check out CPC's new website. Please send us your feedback and news ---   and enjoy the summer ahead! Kelly Musick, CPC Director 
CPC at PAA 2018


CPC had a stronger showing than ever at the PAA annual meeting, with a total of 49 faculty, postdoctoral, and student affiliates presenting papers and posters and serving as chairs and discussants. CPC provided PAA travel awards to 20 graduate students and hosted a reception for affiliates, alumni, and friends. 
Graduate Student Poster Award Winners PAA 2018 
 
Faculty Affiliate Awards 
Dunifon and Tach Awarded Institutional Challenge Grant

CPC affiliates  Rachel Dunifon and Laura Tach were awarded the inaugural William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant to address increases in opioid abuse and child maltreatment in low income, rural communities in upstate New York. This new funding mechanism encourages sustainable research-practice partnerships to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.

Eloundou-Enyegue and Giroux Awarded DoD Grant

Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue (CPC Associate Director) and Sarah Giroux were awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Department of Defense to study the exploding youth population in sub-Saharan Africa.
Their collaborative project will experiment with policy interventions to reduce the socioeconomic uncertainty of youth transitions into adulthood.

Link to more on this project.
Miller Wins American Economic Journal Best Paper Award

Congratulations to CPC affiliate Doug Miller, who won the Best Paper Award from the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy for "Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health" (with Hilary Hoynes of the University of California-Berkeley and David Simon of the University of Connecticut).
New Faculty Affiliate Spotlight
 
Tashara M. Leak ( Ph.D., R.D. , Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences) is a health disparities researcher whose work informs public health programming and policy. Leak designs innovative and culturally relevant interventions to improve dietary behaviors among impoverished, minority youth in urban communities. Her research is multidisciplinary and lies at the intersection of poverty, race/ethnicity, nutrition, and health.
Recent Graduate Spotlight 
 
Allison Dwyer Emory (Ph.D., Sociology) is starting her second year as a Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers School of Social Work. She is collaborating with a team of researchers, including CPC affiliate Maureen Waller, to examine how state policies shape father involvement with an eye toward mitigating childhood inequality.   
 
Preview of Fall Events
 
Save the date for CPC's Welcome Mixer on Thursday, August 23, 3:30-5pm. This event is co-hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS), and the Roper Center.

We have an exciting line-up in the works for the 2018-19 Innovations in Population Science Series, including Hedwig Lee (Washington University in St. Louis), Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland), Paula Fomby (University of Michigan), Lonnie Berger (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Monica Alexander (University of Toronto), and Deborah Carr (Boston University). This series is co-sponsored by ISS, CSI, and other collaborators across campus.

CPC will host the Annual Upstate Population Workshop on October 19 at Cornell University. This is a joint initiative with the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) at Syracuse University.
Population Studies in Practice: The New York Minute 

The New York Minute is published every other month and highlights NYS trends and data sources on varying community development topics. Read the most recent edition, Which Generation is more "Connected"? A regional Snapshot of New Yorkers by Robin Blakely-Armitage and Elizabeth Jade Womack.

Visit CPC's new website

CPC has a new look! Please visit us at cpc.cornell.edu and send any feedback to population@cornell.edu.



Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Twitter and keep us posted on any news you'd like to share at population@cornell.edu.
 

Improving lives by exploring and shaping human connections to
natural, social, and built environments

***This email has been verified by the Cornell IT Security Office. See a copy of the Verified Communications page (CUWebLogin required).
CORNELL LINK SAFETY TIP: In many email programs and browsers, hovering over a link *without* clicking lets you see the real destination for the link, often displayed in the bottom corner. You can trust links where cornell.edu appears right before the FIRST slash (/). Check all others closely, and   confirm the source before you click. Never give away your NetID password -- not in email, not on the phone, not in person.