Population Program

Sanyu Mojola received the “Distinguished Scholarly Book Award” from the American Sociological Association at the August 20-23 meeting in Seattle. This is a tremendous honor, presented annually for the ASA member's best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the award year. Sanyu joins a distinguished and very impressive list of scholarly awardees. The title which earned this much-deserved award is Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press, 2014).
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"Love, Money, and HIV" Receives Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
Aaron Malone has been awarded a Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship through CU Engage. The program supports a cohort of graduate students doing collaborative research with community partners for mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
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Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship awarded through CU Engage
CUPC affiliates Ryan Masters and Stef Mollborn participated in “Advocacy Day” through the Population Association of America in Washington DC, late March 2016.  Advocacy Day took place the day prior to the annual PAA meeting and Ryan and Stef met with staff in the offices of Senator Michale Barnett (CO), Senator Cory Gardner (CO) and Representative Diana DeGette (CO01).  The conversations were designed to inform staff about population sciences in general, what population researchers are doing at CU-Boulder, and how population sciences benefit from the federal government (both directly through grants and indirectly through agencies). They also urged continued support
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Population Science Researchers Become Agency Advocates
A new study, led by University of Colorado Boulder researcher David Pyrooz, finds no evidence of a widespread surge in total, violent or property crime in large U.S. cities in the aftermath of the highly publicized police shooting of Michael Brown. But the research does show the overall rate of robberies across the country has increased, as has the murder rate in certain cities.
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Ferguson Effect Explored in New, Sweeping Study
jimi adams' guest commentary in the Denver Post Opinion shares interesting insight and valuable scientific observation on this important topic.
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The Consensus is that Children from Gay Marriages are Just Fine

"Love, Money, and HIV" Receives Distinguished Scholarly Book Award

Sanyu Mojola received the “Distinguished Scholarly Book Award” from the American Sociological Association at the August 20-23 meeting in Seattle. This is a tremendous honor, presented annually for the ASA member's best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the award year. Sanyu joins a distinguished and very impressive list of scholarly awardees. The title which earned this much-deserved award is Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press, 2014).
Read More.
Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship awarded through CU Engage

Aaron Malone has been awarded a Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship through CU Engage. The program supports a cohort of graduate students doing collaborative research with community partners for mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Read More.
Population Science Researchers Become Agency Advocates

CUPC affiliates Ryan Masters and Stef Mollborn participated in “Advocacy Day” through the Population Association of America in Washington DC, late March 2016.  Advocacy Day took place the day prior to the annual PAA meeting and Ryan and Stef met with staff in the offices of Senator Michale Barnett (CO), Senator Cory Gardner (CO) and Representative Diana DeGette (CO01).  The conversations were designed to inform staff about population sciences in general, what population researchers are doing at CU-Boulder, and how population sciences benefit from the federal government (both directly through grants and indirectly through agencies). They also urged continued support
Read More.
Ferguson Effect Explored in New, Sweeping Study

A new study, led by University of Colorado Boulder researcher David Pyrooz, finds no evidence of a widespread surge in total, violent or property crime in large U.S. cities in the aftermath of the highly publicized police shooting of Michael Brown. But the research does show the overall rate of robberies across the country has increased, as has the murder rate in certain cities.
Read More.
The Consensus is that Children from Gay Marriages are Just Fine

jimi adams' guest commentary in the Denver Post Opinion shares interesting insight and valuable scientific observation on this important topic.
Read More.

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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.

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