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2023 CDE Seed Grant Competition

  The Center for Demography and Ecology is pleased to announce a seed grant competition to support pilot research for future grant applications to NIH. Request for Proposals: Deadline May 15, 2023 Research Focus Proposals on a wide range of topics related to the population sciences are invited. Of particular interest is research that address …

Alejandra Ros Pilarz featured in The Atlantic’s “The Catch-22 for Working Parents”

Tiffany Green featuring on Channel 3000 “Studies show rates of Black infant, maternal deaths increase in 2020, 2021”

CDE & CDHA Engagement at PAA 2023

CDE/CDHA affiliates and graduate students are looking forward to the 2023 PAA annual meeting in New Orleans! Both centers are well represented with 66 faculty affiliates, 18 postdoctoral affiliates, and 50 graduate student affiliates appearing 134 times on the program as authors, discussants, and chairs. A full list of CDE/CDHA contributions may be found here.

Tiffany Green quoted in NY Times “Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They’re Rich, Expansive Study Finds”

Max Besbris awarded Eastern Sociology Society Early Career Public Sociology Award

Congratulations to Max Besbris, for receiving the Eastern Sociology Society Early Career Public Sociology Award. This award recognizes sociologists who have done cutting-edge sociological research and engaged in meaningful public work using that research.

Tiffany Green featured in On Wisconsin Magazine’s “Fixing the Future”

Jenna Nobles quoted in PNAS article, COVID-19 increases pregnancy risks. Poorer communities shoulder most of the burden

Lauren Schmitz featured in Nature article, How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA

Call for CDE Visiting Scholar Program