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IBS Researchers Land Funding for Advanced Study of Gene-Environment Interactions

September 7, 2017

Postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students to increase their knowledge of demography and genetics in one of the first programs of its kindArticle by Jeff ThomasJason Boardman has made headlines studying the interactions between people’s genes and their environment, finding, for instance, that social factors trump genetic forces in forging friendships. Now, the University of Colorado Boulder sociologist

IBS Researchers Honored with 2017 SPAIG Award

September 1, 2017

At the recently concluded Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, IBS researchers Seth Spielman and David Folch were recipients of the 2017 SPAIG Award (SPAIG is the Statistical Partnership Among Academe, Industry, and Government Committee) for their work wiht the National Science Foundation – Census Reserach Network (NCRN).

IBS Health and Society Program Study on Mortality Rates Published in IJE

August 8, 2017

Opioids, obesity—not 'despair deaths'—raising mortality rates for whites Drug-related deaths among middle-aged white men increased more than 25-fold between 1980 and 2014, with the bulk of that spike occurring since the mid-1990s when addictive prescription opioids became broadly available, according to new CU Boulder research. The study, published online today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, also found

IBS Group Receives SFPRF Large Research Grant

August 3, 2017

A group of IBS Researchers, led by Amanda Stevenson with co-investigators Jane Menken, Stephanie Mollborn, Sara Yeatman, and Katie Genadek, were recently awarded funding on a large research proposal from the Society of Family Planning Research Fund (SFPRF). The project, entitled Assessing life course impacts of expanded access to LARCs in Colorado, asks the question "Does access

IBS Study: When Farmers Must Pay for Groundwater, They Cut Use by a Third

June 29, 2017

This article was originally published in CU Boulder Today. You can view the original article here.) By: Lisa Marshall With record high temperatures scorching the Southwest this week, farmers were quickly reminded of the severe droughts that threatened their crops and livelihood in recent years. How will they manage increasingly scarce water when drought comes again? A

Former IBS Research Assistant receives APSA’s Leonard D.White Award

June 20, 2017

Former IBS Reserach Associate in the Environment & Society Program, Alan Zarychta, is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2017 Leonard D. White Award which is awarded annually for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of public administration. The award committee included Zachary Oberfield (Haverford College), chair, Mary

PhD candidate studies fertility, maternal health in Tanzania

June 12, 2017

Researcher uses quantitative data to examine external factors affecting fertility trends

Hazards Center Research Associate Receives Research Scholar Fulbright Award

June 9, 2017

Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Ph.D., a research associate at the Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, CU-Boulder, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board as a recipient of a Research Scholar Fulbright Award in Malaysia August 2017-June 2018.

Baker, Schaffer Win Inaugural Seligson Prize from LAPOP for Paper

April 24, 2017

A paper entitiled "Clientelism as Persuasion-Buuying: Evidence from Latin America" which was co-authored by Andy Baker and Joby Schaffer has won the Seligson Prize from the Latin American Public Opinion Project. The Seligson Prize was founded to recognize excellence in Latin American scholarship, and was named in honor of Mitchell Seligson, the founder of LAPOP and a

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