The NextGenPop team is excited to share the website and application for this summer’s inaugural program hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Please help spread the word, particularly to students from underrepresented groups. Application deadline February 15.
This program uses the pressing growth of inequality as a lens for studying population composition and change, with the goal of increasing the pipeline of undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds into the population sciences. It has three specific aims: 1) to introduce advanced undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to foundational demographic concepts and tools; 2) to integrate students’ training in research and professional development; 3) to foster ongoing engagement of program participants in population research and allied fields.
These specific aims are met through an intensive summer residential program rotating across five institutions over five years and an infrastructure for ongoing engagement of program participants. Participating institutions include Wisconsin and Cornell (co-leaders), Duke, UC-Irvine, and Minnesota. The program is governed by a strong central coordinating core and share a common curriculum. Unique signature themes each summer will leverage key research strengths of individual population centers.
Under the leadership of DUPRI’s Giovanna Merli, Duke will host the program during the third year of NextGenPop. DUPRI collaborators include Tyson Brown (Sociology), Scott Lynch (Sociology), James Moody (Sociology), Jay Pearson (Sanford PPS) and Marcos Rangel (Sanford PPS). The DUPRI team will join forces with a regional team of investigators at North Carolina Central University College of Health and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Hopkins Population Center and Morgan State University to provide expertise on social networks, health inequalities and migration and ensure a pool of qualified advanced undergraduates to participate in the program.