Jeff Niederdeppe is featured in a RWJ Foundation report on the power of storytelling to advance health policy.

Colleen Carey’s research on Medicaid reimbursement amounts impact on frequency of primary care visits was featured in the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Chris Barrett is developing theories and measurement methods for exploring individual, household, and community resilience to shocks and stressors around poverty dynamics and risk.

Mary Jo Dudley was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health.

Peter Rich analyzed contributions of systemic issues on educational attainment for Black and white students.

Maureen Waller collaborates with external partners to increase knowledge on emerging trends with disadvantaged families, and advocates for their consideration with policymakers.

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue will serve as a juror in a World Food Forum research challenge.

Kendra Bischoff (SOC), Laura Tach (PAM), and Linda Shi (AAP) received a Cornell Migrations Grant entitled “Risk or Refuge: Inequality in Exposure to Environmental Vulnerability in California”.

John Cawley (Economics, PAM, Cornell in Washington) has been named the next director of the Cornell in Washington program. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Global Development) discussed empowering Cameroonian youth in the article, “How Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue is leading the global conversation on population and development” in the CornellCALS News.

Peter Enns (Government, Public Policy) has been named the director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. Enns, along with three co-authors, published the book, “Highjacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence”. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Maria Fitzpatrick (PAM, Cornell Institute of Public Affairs) and Matt Hall (PAM) discussed their Big Data Policy Program for high school students – developed by eCornell, the School of Continuing Education (SCE) and the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab (NEEL) – in the Cornell Chronicle.

Tashara Leak (Nuritional Sciences) received a 5-year USDA NIFA grant ($990,000; 2021-2025) titled, “The Advanced Cooking Education (ACE) Urban 4-H After-School Club: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial”. Read more on the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture website.

Michael Lovenheim (Economics, Public Policy, Industrial and Labor Relations) recently published, “Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes” in the Journal of Public Economics.

Kelly Musick (PAM) with Patrick Ishizuka (Washington University in St. Louis, Frank H.T. Rhoads Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019) published, “Occupational Inflexibility and Women’s Employment During the Transition to Parenthood” in Demography.

Ben Rosche (PhD Candidate, SOC) has been awarded a two-year $240,000 National Science Foundation Grant for his project to examine he consequences of adolescent friendships that bridge socioeconomic boundaries for the long-term socioeconomic attainment of disadvantaged youth. Read more about the project.

Jan Vink (Program on Applied Demographics, PAM) discussed the 2020 Census in the Times Union article, “The hardest census: historic challenges could mean more errors in 2020 data”. Vink also repackaged the NY #Census2020 redistricting data and combined it with 2000 and 2010 data. Results can be found on the PAD website at Census 2020 redistricting results.

Linda Zhao (CPC Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow) with Filiz Garip (Princeton) published “Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality” in Sociological Methods & Research.

Nicolas Ziebarth (PAM, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures) with co-authors published the brief report, “Awareness and use of (emergency) sick leave: US employees’ unaddressed sick leave needs in a global pandemic” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Chris Barrett (AEM) presented his research on mapping food systems past mid-century at the virtual Earth Day Global Forum, hosted by the New York City Diplomatic Community. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Kendra Bischoff (SOC) and Laura Tach (PAM) received the IPUMS Spatial Research Award for published research for “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods.”

Francine D. Blau (ILR), Lawrence M. Kahn (ILR), Matthew Comey (Ph.D. Candidate PAM), Amanda Eng (Ph.D. Candidate Econ), Pamela Meyerhofer (Ph.D. PAM 2020, Montana State) PAM,and Alexander Willén (Ph.D. PAM 2018, Norwegian School of Economics received the IPUMS Time Use Published Research Award for, “Culture and gender allocation of tasks: source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants.”

Rachel Dunifon (Cornell College of Human Ecology), Mariana Amorim (Ph.D.PAM, 2019, Washington State University) with Natasha V. Pilkauskas received the IPUMS USA Research Award for best published paper for “Historical Trends in Children Living in Multigenerational Households in the United States: 1870–2018.”

Jerel Ezell (American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center) published his research on the experience of “intersectional trauma” among racial/ethnic minorities in COVID-19, the Flint Water Crisis, Hurricane Katrina, & Hurricane Maria in Traumatology.

Shannon Gleeson (ILR) was awarded CCSS funding to work on a book with Xóchitl Bada titled, “Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back into the Local”. Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Dan Lichter (PAM) was named to the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations (NAC). Read the full article.

Vida Maralani (SOC) and Celene Reynolds (Postdoctoral Fellow in ILR), received CCSS funding for “Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy”. Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Doug Miller (PAM) was awarded a CCSS grant for “Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion.” Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Kelly Musick (PAM) with Pilar Gonalons-Pons and Christine Schwartz published, “Changes in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality” in Demography.

Adriana Reyes (PAM) and Erin York Cornwell (SOC) were awarded CCSS funding for their research, “Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults.” Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Peter Rich (PAM) with Jennifer Candipan and Ann Owens published “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link?” in Demography.

Jan Vink (Program on Applied Demographics, PAM) discussed the 2020 Census in “Political Ramifications Show Importance Of Filling Out Census Form” on NPR’s Morning Edition.

John Abowd (Economics, Statistics and Information Science, U.S. Census Bureau) was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Chris Barrett (AEM) recently published the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability/Nature Sustainability report, “Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems” on the Nature Sustainability website, in collaboration with its sibling journal, Nature Food.

Maria Fitzpatrick (Economics, PAM, Cornell Institute of Public Policy) is Cornell’s new associate vice provost for social sciences. Read the more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Erin McCauley (Ph.D. Candidate in SOC) received a Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant funded by The New York Community Trust for Dissertation and Faculty Research in the Human Services for her dissertation project, “Detained Potential: Associative Stigma as a Core Mechanism Behind Educational Inequality for Children of Incarcerated Mothers.”

Victor Nee (SOC) with Lucas Drouhot (Ph.D., ’18 and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) published “Immigration, Opportunity and Assimilation in a Technology Economy,” in Theory and Society.

Emily Parker (Ph.D. Candidate in PAM), Sharon Sassler (PAM), and Laura Tach (PAM) published, “Fatherhood and Racial-Ethnic Differences in the Progression of Romantic Relationships” in the Journal of Family and Marriage.

Karl Pillemer (Human Development) published the book, “Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them,” Read more in the Cornell Chronicle. Listen to Pillemer discuss the stigma of estrangement and steps to reconciliation in this video.

Adriana Reyes (PAM) has been selected as a USC Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research scholar to advance her research on how different state policies affect family caregiving strategies for adults with cognitive decline. Read more in the USC Health Policy news.

Sharon Sassler (PAM) has been elected to the Population Association of America Nominations Committee and serves as committee chair.

Mildred Warner (CRP) received the Margarita McCoy Faculty Award for the advancement of women in planning in higher education through service, teaching and research. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Jamein Cunningham (Brooks School) has been named an Emerging Poverty Scholar Fellow by the University of Wisconsin’s-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty.

Alexandra Cooperstock (PhD Candidate, SOC) was awarded a Russell Sage and William T. Grant Foundation award for her project, “Place-Based Education Investment: Promise Neighborhoods and Student Academic Outcomes”. Read more in Cornell Sociology News.

Max Kapustin (Brooks School) with Chris Blattman, Marianne Bertrand, and Sara Heller have been awarded $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to support gun violence prevention research. Read the full article.

Sadé Lindsay (Brooks School) received the Gene Carte Student Paper Award (1st place), American Society of Criminology for “The Prison Credential Dilemma: How Racial Discrimination and Contradictory Signals Shape Post-Prison Employment”. Read more in ASC awards.

Jamila Michener (GOV, Brooks School, Cornell Center for Health Equity) received a Robert Wood Johnson award for “Building Power for Community Health: A Study of Tenant Organizing in Syracuse, NY”. Read more about the Interdisciplinary research leaders 2021-2024 cohort.

Anthony Ong (Psychology) with Andrew Steptoe recently published, “Association of positive affect instability with all-cause mortality in older adults in England”. Read more in JAMA Network Open.

Barum Park (SOC) has been awarded a NSF grant for his research with Byungkyu Lee and Mark Hoffman titled “Collaborative Research: How online foci shape conversation”. Read more in Cornell Sociology News.

Kendra Bischoff (SOC), Laura Tach (PAM), and Linda Shi (AAP) received a Cornell Migrations Grant entitled “Risk or Refuge: Inequality in Exposure to Environmental Vulnerability in California”.

John Cawley (Economics, PAM, Cornell in Washington) has been named the next director of the Cornell in Washington program. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Global Development) discussed empowering Cameroonian youth in the article, “How Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue is leading the global conversation on population and development” in the CornellCALS News.

Peter Enns (Government, Public Policy) has been named the director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. Enns, along with three co-authors, published the book, “Highjacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence”. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Maria Fitzpatrick (PAM, Cornell Institute of Public Affairs) and Matt Hall (PAM) discussed their Big Data Policy Program for high school students – developed by eCornell, the School of Continuing Education (SCE) and the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab (NEEL) – in the Cornell Chronicle.

Tashara Leak (Nuritional Sciences) received a 5-year USDA NIFA grant ($990,000; 2021-2025) titled, “The Advanced Cooking Education (ACE) Urban 4-H After-School Club: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial”. Read more on the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture website.

Michael Lovenheim (Economics, Public Policy, Industrial and Labor Relations) recently published, “Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes” in the Journal of Public Economics.

Kelly Musick (PAM) with Patrick Ishizuka (Washington University in St. Louis, Frank H.T. Rhoads Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019) published, “Occupational Inflexibility and Women’s Employment During the Transition to Parenthood” in Demography.

Ben Rosche (PhD Candidate, SOC) has been awarded a two-year $240,000 National Science Foundation Grant for his project to examine he consequences of adolescent friendships that bridge socioeconomic boundaries for the long-term socioeconomic attainment of disadvantaged youth. Read more about the project.

Jan Vink (Program on Applied Demographics, PAM) discussed the 2020 Census in the Times Union article, “The hardest census: historic challenges could mean more errors in 2020 data”. Vink also repackaged the NY #Census2020 redistricting data and combined it with 2000 and 2010 data. Results can be found on the PAD website at Census 2020 redistricting results.

Linda Zhao (CPC Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow) with Filiz Garip (Princeton) published “Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality” in Sociological Methods & Research.

Nicolas Ziebarth (PAM, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures) with co-authors published the brief report, “Awareness and use of (emergency) sick leave: US employees’ unaddressed sick leave needs in a global pandemic” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Chris Barrett (AEM) presented his research on mapping food systems past mid-century at the virtual Earth Day Global Forum, hosted by the New York City Diplomatic Community. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Kendra Bischoff (SOC) and Laura Tach (PAM) received the IPUMS Spatial Research Award for published research for “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods.”

Francine D. Blau (ILR), Lawrence M. Kahn (ILR), Matthew Comey (Ph.D. Candidate PAM), Amanda Eng (Ph.D. Candidate Econ), Pamela Meyerhofer (Ph.D. PAM 2020, Montana State) PAM,and Alexander Willén (Ph.D. PAM 2018, Norwegian School of Economics received the IPUMS Time Use Published Research Award for, “Culture and gender allocation of tasks: source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants.”

Rachel Dunifon (Cornell College of Human Ecology), Mariana Amorim (Ph.D.PAM, 2019, Washington State University) with Natasha V. Pilkauskas received the IPUMS USA Research Award for best published paper for “Historical Trends in Children Living in Multigenerational Households in the United States: 1870–2018.”

Jerel Ezell (American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center) published his research on the experience of “intersectional trauma” among racial/ethnic minorities in COVID-19, the Flint Water Crisis, Hurricane Katrina, & Hurricane Maria in Traumatology.

Shannon Gleeson (ILR) was awarded CCSS funding to work on a book with Xóchitl Bada titled, “Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back into the Local”. Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Dan Lichter (PAM) was named to the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations (NAC). Read the full article.

Vida Maralani (SOC) and Celene Reynolds (Postdoctoral Fellow in ILR), received CCSS funding for “Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy”. Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Doug Miller (PAM) was awarded a CCSS grant for “Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion.” Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Kelly Musick (PAM) with Pilar Gonalons-Pons and Christine Schwartz published, “Changes in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality” in Demography.

Adriana Reyes (PAM) and Erin York Cornwell (SOC) were awarded CCSS funding for their research, “Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults.” Read the Cornell Chronicle article.

Peter Rich (PAM) with Jennifer Candipan and Ann Owens published “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link?” in Demography.

Jan Vink (Program on Applied Demographics, PAM) discussed the 2020 Census in “Political Ramifications Show Importance Of Filling Out Census Form” on NPR’s Morning Edition.

John Abowd (Economics, Statistics and Information Science, U.S. Census Bureau) was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Chris Barrett (AEM) recently published the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability/Nature Sustainability report, “Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems” on the Nature Sustainability website, in collaboration with its sibling journal, Nature Food.

Maria Fitzpatrick (Economics, PAM, Cornell Institute of Public Policy) is Cornell’s new associate vice provost for social sciences. Read the more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Erin McCauley (Ph.D. Candidate in SOC) received a Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant funded by The New York Community Trust for Dissertation and Faculty Research in the Human Services for her dissertation project, “Detained Potential: Associative Stigma as a Core Mechanism Behind Educational Inequality for Children of Incarcerated Mothers.”

Victor Nee (SOC) with Lucas Drouhot (Ph.D., ’18 and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) published “Immigration, Opportunity and Assimilation in a Technology Economy,” in Theory and Society.

Emily Parker (Ph.D. Candidate in PAM), Sharon Sassler (PAM), and Laura Tach (PAM) published, “Fatherhood and Racial-Ethnic Differences in the Progression of Romantic Relationships” in the Journal of Family and Marriage.

Karl Pillemer (Human Development) published the book, “Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them,” Read more in the Cornell Chronicle. Listen to Pillemer discuss the stigma of estrangement and steps to reconciliation in this video.

Adriana Reyes (PAM) has been selected as a USC Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research scholar to advance her research on how different state policies affect family caregiving strategies for adults with cognitive decline. Read more in the USC Health Policy news.

Sharon Sassler (PAM) has been elected to the Population Association of America Nominations Committee and serves as committee chair.

Mildred Warner (CRP) received the Margarita McCoy Faculty Award for the advancement of women in planning in higher education through service, teaching and research. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.