CUPC Day 2021
CUPC Day 2021 was held on November 3, 2021, with flash talks from each primary research area at CUPC. Recordings of the event as well as slides from each presentation … Read more
Tom Dickinson
Fostered Adolescents & Reproductive Health
Adolescents within foster care are an often-overlooked population within reproductive health scholarship. New CUPC Faculty Affiliate Katie Combs is dedicated to improving knowledge about marginalized populations and their sexual and … Read more
Erin Kelly investigates youth mortality from firearms
As gun violence continues to plague communities across the nation, CUPC Affiliate Dr. Erin Kelly remains committed to identifying risk factors for youth deaths involving firearms. Dr. Kelly is a … Read more
CUPC Statement on the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
The CUPC, as part of the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), concurs in full with the IBS statement on the rise of anti-Asian American hate crimes. Read the full statement
New affiliate Morteza Karimzadeh makes important progress on COVID modeling
CUPC is thrilled to introduce our newest affiliate Morteza Karimzadeh, Assistant Professor of GEOG at CU Boulder. click here for bio As a geospatial data scientist, Dr. Karimzadeh brings tremendous … Read more
CUPC well represented at 2021 Population Association of America conference
CUPC is proud of our affiliates’ forthcoming contributions at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Research will be presented representing each of CUPC’s five primary research areas … Read more
CUPC Seed Grant Project Awards
CUPC is excited to announce a new round of seed funding for 2021! Learn more about the project below. Racial Disparities in Genetic Associations: the Role of Environmentally Induced Epigenetic … Read more
New research by Braudt, Tilstra, and Rogers highlights link between SES and childhood mortality
In a study recently published in Maternal and Child Health Journal, CUPC affiliate David Braudt (postdoc) and coauthors – including CUPC affiliates Andrea Tilstra and Rick Rogers – examine the … Read more
Life, privacy, and the pursuit of knowledge: Spielman assesses data-masking techniques to be used in 2020 Census.
Privacy is becoming an increasing challenge in the Era of Big Data, periodically characterized by news about the unauthorized or legally-murky access, use, and selling of information otherwise entrusted to … Read more
CUPC Grant Workshop 2020
Have a nugget of an idea for a grant proposal? Would you benefit from support, encouragement, and a timeline? CUPC is pleased to announce a new Grant Workshop to support … Read more
Dr. Edelina Burciaga joins CUPC as faculty affiliate
We would like to offer a very warm welcome to the newest CUPC affiliate, Dr. Edelina Burciaga! Dr. Edelina Burciaga is an Assistant professor of Sociology at the University of … Read more
Job Openings for Post Docs in Environmental Demography and Quantitative Historical/Demographic Research
The CU Population Center (CUPC) at the University of Colorado Boulder is currently recruiting two postdoctoral fellows with expertise in population-environment research, to start August 2020. The initial term of … Read more
CUPC affiliates present research at the IAPHS meetings in Seattle
CUPC has been well-represented at this week’s meeting of the Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Science in Seattle. Presentations included: Minority-owned small businesses and employer-sponsored health insurance Melanie K. Tran, (CU Denver), … Read more
Recent affiliate publications (Sept. 2019).
(Affiliates marked in boldface). Argys, LM & SL Averett. 2019. “The Effect of Family Size on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from China’s One-child Policy.” Journal of Demographic Economics. 85(1): 21-42. … Read more
Kim Truong-Vu searches for the source of disparities in use of HPV vaccine.
It is well-known that major health disparities exist between race-ethnic groups -and between men and women in some circumstances- due not only to differences in the capacity of groups to … Read more