What: Biodemography of Aging Research Unit (BARU) is hosting the f the Duke-NIH Workshop "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health Disparities Research Related to Aging". Time: 9am - 6pm Venue: TBD Agenda: Keynote Speaker: Yaakov Stern and Carl Hill, Director of the NIA Office of Special Populations
Events
02/21/2019
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An Overview of Autoregressive, Latent Growth Curve, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data ABSTRACT: A wide variety of models are applied to analyze longitudinal data. This seminar provides an overview of three popular ones: the latent growth curve (LGC), the autoregressive (AR), and the... Read More
02/28/2019
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Title: Networks, Diffusion and Inequality
03/21/2019
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TBD
03/28/2019
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The Impact of Residential Change and Housing Stability on Criminal Recidivism: A Randomized Controlled Trial ABSTRACT: More than 600,000 prisoners are released from U.S. prisons each year, and roughly one-half of these individuals are back in prison within just three years. A likely contributor to... Read More
News
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What: Biodemography of Aging Research Unit (BARU) is hosting the f the Duke-NIH Workshop "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health Disparities Research Related to Aging". Time: 9am...
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What: Lecture by Elliott Tucker-Drob, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the UT Austin Population Research Center. He leads the Lifespan Development Lab at UT...
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The Add Health Parent Study, a Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI) and the Carolina Population Center (CPC) collaborative data collection initiative, funded by the National Institute on Aging...
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The 2017 Social Networks and Health workshop is a week-long workshop that will introduce attendees to topics in social networks, and how they can be applied to research on health.
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One of our own: Christopher A Bail, a DUPRI Faculty member from the Sociology department, has won this prestigious award.
In the Media
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Publication of Article in Scientific American (page 36) featuring the exiting work of Susan Alberts and Jenny Tung (Duke Evolutionary Anthropology) through the Amboseli Baboon Research Project...
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This article appeared in Science News Being low on the pecking order often means poorer health — but why?
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This article appeared in The New York Times "Opinion" On social media, encountering opposing views can make people become even more wedded to their own. By Christopher A. Bail
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By Viviane Callier Jenny Tung first traveled to East Africa in 2006 to study the wild baboons of Amboseli, Kenya. She remembers being surprised at how big they were, noting, “They are so human to me...
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Newswise — Washington, DC—The escalating influence of modern biomedical conceptions of health and illness—increasingly going beyond traditional medical illness to “explain” behavioral problems and...