CCPR Director Judith Seltzer is Honored
NewsJudith A. Seltzer, Director of CCPR, has been elected President of the Population Association of America.
She will serve as President-Elect in 2015 and President in 2016.
Seltzer is a UCLA Professor of Sociology and a founding member of…
Several CCPR faculty members receive the UCLA Hellman Fellowship Awards
NewsCongratulations to Professors Randall Akee, William Hanlon, Ka-Yuet Liu, Paavo Monkkonen and A. Janet Tomiyama!
2014 – 2015 UCLA Hellman Fellows
Randall Akee (Public Policy): How do Changes in Unearned Income Affect American Indian Infants…
Esther Friedman and Robert Mare featured in Washington Post
NewsProfessor Rob Mare and alumna Esther Friedman’s work on the effect of having a child in college on life expectancy of parents was featured in the Washington Post. The research was published in the journal Demography.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/31/want-to-live-longer-send-your-kids-to-college/
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-014-0303-z?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals
Congratulations…
Gary Gates in the New York Times
NewsDr. Gary Gates was interviewed for a piece in the New York Times today about measurement of sexual orientation and gender identity (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/how-many-americans-are-lesbian-gay-or-bisexual/?ref=health).
Congratulations, Prof. Brand!
NewsWe’re happy to congratulate Prof. Jennie Brand for receiving honorable mention for the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The award will…
Congratulations Prof. Paul M. Ong on 2013-14 Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship!
NewsProfessor Paul M. Ong Awarded
2013-14 Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship
Professor Paul M. Ong is the 2013-14 recipient of the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship in Asian American Studies at UCLA.
A…
2014 ASA Distinguished Career Awarded to Prof. Vilma Ortiz, Congratulations!
NewsCongratulations to Professor Vilma Ortiz. She received the Distinguished Career Award from the Latina/o section of the American Sociological Association. Congratulations to Vilma!
Prof. Mignon Moore to be honor by LA City Council and Mayor Garcetti
NewsProfessor Mignon Moore and her spouse Elaine are receiving the LGBT Heritage award from the LA City Council. Mayor Eric Garcetti will present the award on Friday, May 30. The award recognizes their work on Marriage Equality and their outreach…
Congratulations to Mary Ann Bronson, Edgar Cortes Quiroz, and Gabriela Rubio!
NewsMary Ann Bronson has accepted a position as assistant professor at Georgetown University.
Edgar Cortes Quiroz has accepted a position as economist at Bank of Mexico.
Gabriela Rubio has accepted a position as assistant professor at University…
Dora Costa quoted in CNN article about Civil War prisons
NewsDora Costa, a UCLA economics professor, studied the life histories of 41,000 white and black Union soldiers. She found that men who entered prison camps with friends and comrades were more likely to survive, especially those with similar ethnicity.
"What…