We have thoroughly enjoyed being on campus this semester and hope that our success continues into the new year. Our fall newsletter includes updates on an exciting upcoming PAA event, an introduction of next semester's seminar speakers and training program topics, grant development efforts, and affiliate research. We look forward to keeping you posted on the innovative population research happening at Cornell. Matt Hall, CPC Director
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Leslie Reynolds (M.A. in Applied Demography, Bowling Green) has recently joined the Cornell Program in Applied Demographics (PAD) as a Research Support Specialist. Her research interests include health inequality, social policy, and statistical and demographic research methods. At PAD, she provides research support on New York State population counts and trends, data collection and analysis, and report writing. As part of PAD’s Decennial Census operations, Leslie is currently co-authoring a paper Jan Vink on the Measurement of Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census. This paper will describe changes in the way the Census Bureau measured race and ethnicity between 2010 and 2020 and discuss the potential impacts of coding and processing on observed population counts and changes in New York State.This paper will serve as a general resource and methodological guide for Census stakeholders, data users, and affiliates alike.
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PAA Hosted Event
Join CPC Associate Director, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Global Development) and Training Director, Vida Maralani (SOC) for a Virtual Congressional Briefing, Braving the Storm: How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live on Monday, December 6, 12-1:00pm ET. Sara Curran (University of Washington) and Mathew Hauer (Florida State University) will join them to discuss the myriad issues that demographers are examining in the context of climate change.
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Seminar Series
The Innovations in Population Science Seminar had a successful semester with speakers able to visit campus (pictured here, Amy Hsin, Queens College, CUNY). We have an exciting line-up of speakers in the spring including Siwei Cheng (New York University), Kate Wiesshaar (UNC-Chapel Hill), Mathew Hauer (Florida State University), and Kitt Carpenter (Vanderbilt University). Innovations series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI).
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Visit the Cornell Population Center, Video on Demand Channel to view the 2020-21 Innovations in Population Science Seminars and select Graduate Student Training Proseminars.
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NextGenPop PIs (Kelly Musick and Marcy Carlson) met with fellow site leaders and Advisory Committee members (pictured here) to plan the launch of their collaborative five-year NICHD R25 training program in population research. This intensive summer program for undergraduates is aimed at increasing the diversity of the population field and nurturing the next generation of population scientists. It will welcome its first cohort to Madison, WI this summer 2022—please look out for the call for applications or be in touch for details.
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Center for Aging and Policy Studies
We have a great spring line-up of speakers including Jason Fletcher (University of Wisconsin), Scott Cunningham (Baylor University), Fabian Pfeffer (University of Michigan), and David Rehkopf (Stanford University). CAPS is a collaboration with Syracuse University and the School of Public Policy of the University at Albany and is funded in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30 Demography and Economics of Aging Centers program.
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Grant Development Program Update |
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In partnership with Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) and the Cornell Center for Health Equity we continue our NIH grant development program for social scientists across Cornell. We funded a cohort of 15 faculty with seed grants or larger fellowships, provided mentorship, and held mock study section reviews to support their competitive proposal submissions. Six fellows are on track to submit grant proposals to NIH this cycle with others collecting data to support later submissions. This effort is led by CPC's Development Director, Erin York Cornwell (SOC) and it has benefited from the contributions of many CPC affiliates who have reviewed materials and provided mentorship.
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Demography Training Program |
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Graduate Student Proseminar
Jamein Cunningham (Brooks School) and Max Kaputsin (Brooks School) will present the first spring semester demography training graduate prosem on January 28th titled "Generating ideas for new projects and developing effective workflows". The prosem focuses on topics ranging from professional development, to public presentation skills, and statistical methods. The training program is directed by Vida Maralani (SOC). (Pictured here, Ridhi Kashyap and Computational Policy Working Group).
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Postdoctoral Social Sciences Working Group
Postdoc Opportunity
CPC is accepting applications for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship to start August of 2022. This two-year program supports promising early career scholars in social demography through close collaboration with CPC faculty affiliates. For more information and to apply: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19836. Application review begins December 1.
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Faculty Affiliate Spotlight
Nicholas Sanders (Brooks School of Public Policy and CPC Advisor) with co-author, Anita Mukherjee recently wrote about their research in "Hotter Temperaments: Prisons and Violence in a Warming World,” via Econofact. Many correctional facilities in the hotter areas of the United States lack even basic climate control, and there have been several lawsuits on the constitutionality of such conditions. Their findings show that very hot days mean more conflict, assaults, and killings among the incarcerated. This highlights previously unobserved social costs of outdated prison infrastructure with uncontrolled climate conditions.
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Graduate Student Spotlight
Tatiana Padilla is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Brooks School whose research is dedicated to the socioeconomic consequences of US immigration policy. She has worked on a number of papers and publications, most recently co-authoring a chapter of Immigration: Key to the Future, a book that analyzes the positive role of refugees within their new communities. Padilla currently serves as the Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Residential Assistant for the Cornell In Washington Program.
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Undergraduate Student Spotlight
Matthew Sheen (B.S. Policy Analysis & Management, expected 2022) is a demography minor and studies families and how childhood experiences and outcomes are shaped by institutions. His honors thesis researching the efficacy of parenting education programs taught by Cornell Cooperative Extensions and whether these programs have disparate outcomes depending on participants' racial identification. This research comes from previous experiences working with Laura Tach of PAM studying cultural humility in parental education and working with parent educators at Tompkins Cornell Cooperative Extension. He is also currently an undergraduate TA for PAM 2030: Population and Public Policy and plans on attending graduate school following Cornell.
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CPC Alumni Recognition
Mariana Amorim (PhD, PAM ’19) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. Her research focuses on social welfare policies, intergenerational relationships, poverty and inequality. Relying on a wide range of large scale data sets, and a diverse methodological toolkit, Amorim investigates how public and private safety nets contribute to the well-being, health, and economic security of families and children. Amorim has recently published “My Favorite One Is the One Who Is There Right Now”: Socioeconomic Differences in Support Exchanges within Stepfamilies” in Social Problems and “Socioeconomic Disparities in Parental Spending after Universal Cash Transfers: The Case of the Alaska Dividend” in Social Forces. She appreciates her mentors at Cornell, including Laura Tach, Kelly Musick, Rachel Dunifon, Elaine Wethington, Doug Miller, Sharon Sassler, Matt Hall, Peter Rich, and Daniel Lichter for showing her how to be a better scholar and educator.
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Affiliate Research and Awards
Alexandra Cooperstock (PhD Candidate, SOC) was awarded a Russell Sage and William T. Grant Foundation award for her project, "Place-Based Education Investment: Promise Neighborhoods and Student Academic Outcomes". Read more in Cornell Sociology News.
Max Kapustin (Brooks School) with Chris Blattman, Marianne Bertrand, and Sara Heller have been awarded $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to support gun violence prevention research. Read the full article.
Sadé Lindsay (Brooks School) received the Gene Carte Student Paper Award (1st place), American Society of Criminology for "The Prison Credential Dilemma: How Racial Discrimination and Contradictory Signals Shape Post-Prison Employment". Read more in ASC awards.
Anthony Ong (Psychology) with Andrew Steptoe recently published, “Association of positive affect instability with all-cause mortality in older adults in England”. Read more in JAMA Network Open.
Barum Park (SOC) has been awarded a NSF grant for his research with Byungkyu Lee and Mark Hoffman titled “Collaborative Research: How online foci shape conversation”. Read more in Cornell Sociology News.
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Fostering collaboration and innovation in population science. |
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