PSC News
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Past Chair, Camille Z. Charles, has been appointed as a member of the Faculty Senate Leadership.Date posted: 5/10/2012 | View listing
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Character's Content, a feature article on Angela Duckworth, has been published in the Gazette.Date posted: 5/8/2012 | View listing
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The LDI Health Economist convened a panel of four University of Pennsylvania health care experts, including Mark Pauly, to explore the latest developments on the issue of physician income.Date posted: 5/8/2012 | View listing
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Linda Aiken has been selected for the inaugural Dean’s Award for Exemplary Citizenship for her more than 25 years of service to Penn Nursing.Date posted: 5/8/2012 | View listing
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John MacDonald sheds light on the Trayvon Martin case and the impact it’s making on the public.Date posted: 4/30/2012 | View listing
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An article written by Doug Ewbank, Haidong Wang, Kathy Jedrziewski, and John Trojanowski is one of the top 25 most downloaded articles in Alzheimer's & Dementia for 2011 from Elsevier's SciVerse ScienceDirect.Date posted: 4/26/2012 | View listing
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Date posted: 4/17/2012 | View listing
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Jake Blumgart reviews Michael Katz's Why Don't American Cities Burn? on the Huffington Post.Date posted: 4/12/2012 | View listing
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PSC alumnus Evelyn Patterson is the ASA 2012 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population.Date posted: 4/6/2012 | View listing
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Please see the list of PAA 2012 Participants here: Penn, PSC, and PARC Researchers @ PAA 2012.Date posted: 4/2/2012 | View listing
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An in-depth audio Q & A with Jere Behrman is featured in SAS Frontiers.Date posted: 3/30/2012 | View listing
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Theodore Schurr's study of the connection between Native Americans and the Altai population is featured in SAS Frontiers.Date posted: 3/29/2012 | View listing
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Dennis Culhane, along with John Fantuzzo, is leading an interdisciplinary effort to study the educational well-being of children in assisted-housing programs.Date posted: 3/28/2012 | View listing
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A consortium of investigators from 13 countries led by Linda Aiken found that nurses who reported better working conditions in hospitals and less likelihood of leaving also had patients who were more satisfied with their hospital stay and rated their hospitals more highly.Date posted: 3/26/2012 | View listing
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David Mandell has found that mothers of children with autism earn less than mothers whose children have other health issues.Date posted: 3/22/2012 | View listing
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The Penn Almanac announced that Dr. Dennis Culhane, The Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Welfare and Dr. John Fantuzzo, The Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations have received $1.275 million from the MacArthur Foundation to conduct a multi-site study of the educational well-being of children in assisted housing programs.Date posted: 3/14/2012 | View listing
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Eduardo Fernandez-Duque's reserach on Owl Monkeys is disussed in a National Geographic video entitled, "Owl Monkey Fathers Know Best," and he was also interviewed in Penn News Today about his research.Date posted: 3/8/2012 | View listing
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Michael Katz uses a social lens to examine urban violence and discusses his work in SAS Frontiers.Date posted: 3/1/2012 | View listing
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Mark V. Pauly is the 2012 winner of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, funded by the Baxter International Foundation and administered by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. The Baxter International Foundation established this Prize to recognize its longtime CEO, William Graham. The prize award includes $50,000. Dr. Pauly will be honored in May.Date posted: 2/28/2012 | View listing
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Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers were profiled in a NYT article about the "economics of family life."Date posted: 2/14/2012 | View listing
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PSC Alumnus Jennifer Lundquist's research on racial and gender disparities in the military is highlighted in this NYT Economix blog by Nancy Folbre.Date posted: 2/10/2012 | View listing
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Congratulations to Jessica Ho! She has been named as a Dean's Scholar for the Academic Year 2011/12.Date posted: 2/8/2012 | View listing
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Hyunjoon Park and coauthor Soo-yong Byun's work on SAT Preparation published in Sociology of Education has been covered by Inside Higher Ed and has recently been featured in the Penn News.Date posted: 2/1/2012 | View listing
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Theodore G. Schurr's research and recent paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics on the link between Asians and Native Americans is discussed in Penn News.Date posted: 1/27/2012 | View listing
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has appointed Jere R. Behrman as the Economics/Social Science member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) for three years.Date posted: 1/23/2012 | View listing
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The Winter 2011-12 PSC Information Services Newsletter is now available.Date posted: 1/19/2012 | View listing
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Janice Madden was interviewed in Episode 2 of the documentary "Third and Long: African Americans in Pro Football 1946-1989."Date posted: 1/13/2012 | View listing
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The PSC's website has been named INED's "site of the month" for January 2012.Date posted: 1/4/2012 | View listing
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Now available: Greenwood, Jeremy, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos. 2012. "Technology and the Changing Family: a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation." Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 12-01.Date posted: 1/3/2012 | View listing
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