Summer DemSem 2022 Causal Inference Short Course May 17-24: CDE affiliates are invited to participate in a 5-day short course led by Scott Cunningham (Economics, Baylor), author of Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Virtual training from …
newsletter
Graduate Training Program Update
A hearty congratulations to Ariane Ophir, who completed her PhD in Sociology in the summer. A family sociologist who uses quantitative methods to understand how population dynamics (re)produce or undermine gender inequality, Ophir’s dissertation examined …
Research Focus: Leigh Senderowicz
Leigh Senderowicz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Health Disparities Research Scholars (HDRS) program—an interdisciplinary training program based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine and Public Health. Senderowicz is …
Nine Affiliates Secure New Federal Grants from NICHD
Over the last few months, several CDE affiliates received grants from NICHD to explore a range of topics affecting population dynamics and health. Congratulations to Lawrence Berger and Jennifer Dykema, Marcy Carlson, Monica Grant, Katherine …
Affiliate Updates: Postdoctoral Fellows, Faculty Honors, and Awards
CDE welcomed four new postdocs: Guadalupe Aguilera of the Health Disparities Research Scholars program, Jane Seymour, who is conducting research at the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, directed by affiliate Jenny Higgins, and Laura E. …
New Leadership Team Begins at CDE
CDE is pleased to welcome its new director, Jenna Nobles, and associate director for training, Katherine Curtis! Nobles is a professor of sociology with affiliate appointments in population health sciences and obstetrics and gynecology. On …
Trainee Profile: Annaliese Grant
Name: Annaliese Grant Title: PhD candidate Hometown: Tucson, Arizona Educational background: Barnard College, BA in Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; minor in Math Can you describe your research interests? Current research projects? I …
Congratulations to Graduating Students and Recent Retirees
Congratulations to Sebastian Daza, Amelia Gibbons, Michael King, Julie Kirsch, Amrita Kulka, Isabel Pike, Jessica Polos, Ankit Rastogi, and Nathan Seltzer on the recent/upcoming successful defense of their dissertations! We wish them well on their …
DemSemX – A Cross-Center Collaboration
CDE has developed a new cross-center collaborative effort – DemSemX – that will virtually bring together faculty and students from population research centers across 8 U.S. universities (Bowling Green, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, …
New Grants around CDE
Deb Ehrenthal and Lonnie Berger received R01 funding from NICHD for their project on “Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Birth, Health, Socioeconomic, and Educational Outcomes of Mothers and Their Children.” The research team has assembled a database of …