Population Program

Thanks to all who came and participated in our IBS Poster Symposium this year! Our virtual event on Wednesday April 14th had approximately 30 attendees. Nine IBS graduate students presented their posters in two sessions. The presenters were:  Solveig Delabroye (ECON): Learning from One’s Community: Neighborhood Effects on Non-Cognitive Skills Ganesh Gorti (PSCI): Inequality, conditional cash transfers, and confidence in local institutions Heather Champeau (SOCY) and Jessica Austin (SOCY): Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network: 2018 and 2019 Comparisons Bertha Bermudez Tapia (SOCY): Violence, Asylum, and Permanent-Temporariness: The Effects of COVID-19 and Immigration Policies on the Matamoros’s Migrant-Camp Melissa Villarreal (SOCY): Long Term Housing
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2021 IBS Poster Symposium
Just today, The Denver Post came out with an article written by David Pyrooz, from the Population Program, CU Population Center, and Prevention Science Program, and his fellow researchers. David's research team includes Justin Nix from the University of Nebraska Omaha, and Scott Wolfe from Michigan State University. The year 2020 has been a devastating year for all and has exacerbated many problems, including the homicide rate. In Denver alone, the homicide rate increased by 50% in 2020 which was higher than the average
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Pyrooz Comments on the Rise in Homicides in Denver during 2020
David Pyrooz, from CUPC, the Population Program, and the Prevention Science Program just received the 2021 Boulder Faculty Excellence Award in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work. This award recognizes Pyrooz as an outstanding scholar who has made substantial theoretical and practical interdisciplinary contributions to our understanding of prisons, gangs, COVID, youth and families at risk, and extremists. Congrats David!  Also, below is a list of previous IBS winners of Boulder Faculty Excellence Awards.  Matt McQueen - Excellence in Leadership and Service - 2018
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Pyrooz Receives a 2021 Boulder Faculty Excellence Award!
Two new articles from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Research Report highlights the work of two IBS researchers. The first article focuses on research conducted by Lori Hunter, Director of the CU Population Center and the Population Program. Her research highlights the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of rural America. Collaborators on this project include Myron Gutmann, Stefan Leyk, Catherine Talbot, Johannes Uhl, and Dylan Connor from Arizona State University. The second article focuses
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Lori Hunter and Allison Atteberry’s Research Featured on CU’s Research Report

2021 IBS Poster Symposium

Thanks to all who came and participated in our IBS Poster Symposium this year! Our virtual event on Wednesday April 14th had approximately 30 attendees. Nine IBS graduate students presented their posters in two sessions. The presenters were:  Solveig Delabroye (ECON): Learning from One’s Community: Neighborhood Effects on Non-Cognitive Skills Ganesh Gorti (PSCI): Inequality, conditional cash transfers, and confidence in local institutions Heather Champeau (SOCY) and Jessica Austin (SOCY): Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network: 2018 and 2019 Comparisons Bertha Bermudez Tapia (SOCY): Violence, Asylum, and Permanent-Temporariness: The Effects of COVID-19 and Immigration Policies on the Matamoros’s Migrant-Camp Melissa Villarreal (SOCY): Long Term Housing
Read More.
Pyrooz Comments on the Rise in Homicides in Denver during 2020

Just today, The Denver Post came out with an article written by David Pyrooz, from the Population Program, CU Population Center, and Prevention Science Program, and his fellow researchers. David's research team includes Justin Nix from the University of Nebraska Omaha, and Scott Wolfe from Michigan State University. The year 2020 has been a devastating year for all and has exacerbated many problems, including the homicide rate. In Denver alone, the homicide rate increased by 50% in 2020 which was higher than the average
Read More.
Pyrooz Receives a 2021 Boulder Faculty Excellence Award!

David Pyrooz, from CUPC, the Population Program, and the Prevention Science Program just received the 2021 Boulder Faculty Excellence Award in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work. This award recognizes Pyrooz as an outstanding scholar who has made substantial theoretical and practical interdisciplinary contributions to our understanding of prisons, gangs, COVID, youth and families at risk, and extremists. Congrats David!  Also, below is a list of previous IBS winners of Boulder Faculty Excellence Awards.  Matt McQueen - Excellence in Leadership and Service - 2018
Read More.
Lori Hunter and Allison Atteberry’s Research Featured on CU’s Research Report

Two new articles from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Research Report highlights the work of two IBS researchers. The first article focuses on research conducted by Lori Hunter, Director of the CU Population Center and the Population Program. Her research highlights the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of rural America. Collaborators on this project include Myron Gutmann, Stefan Leyk, Catherine Talbot, Johannes Uhl, and Dylan Connor from Arizona State University. The second article focuses
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Researchers in the Population Program study population dynamics and human well-being in a large variety of contemporary and historical settings. Birth, death, marriage and migration combine with culture to shape the human experience. This powerful combination allows us to understand the dynamics of social and health inequalities, human responses to environmental change, and the causes and consequences of human migration for individuals and places.

The Population Program is home to the CU Population Center, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It draws interdisciplinary researchers from across campus and beyond, with expertise in anthropology, behavioral genetics, demography, economics, geography, history, information science, psychology, and sociology.

The Population Program offers an outstanding training environment and student research opportunities, and houses CU Boulder's Graduate Certificate in Population Studies.

CU Population Center

Engaging in interdisciplinary population research and training, exploring demographic processes, particularly environmental demography, migration and population distribution, and health and mortality.
African Population Studies

Building strong collaborative research linkages with select African institutions, focusing on health, migration, population, and environment.

Institute of Behavioral Science

IBS is committed to advancing knowledge of society's most pressing challenges, and to pursuing solutions to those challenges through innovative and interdisciplinary research, education, and engagement in the world.