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News This page is devoted to news related to C2S. Announcements are listed starting with the most recent news. Fourth Annual C2S Summer Biomarker Institute (June 8-10, 2009) • Download the 2009 Biomarker Institute Brochure (PDF) Doctoral Student Receives NICHD Award Chelsea McKinney was awarded a three-year research supplement to promote diversity in health-related research from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. C2S Seed Grant Program C2S is pleased to announce the continuation of its Seed Grant Program, which awards $2000 to $5000 grants for pilot or supplemental projects. Any C2S faculty member or C2S research associate may apply. The next deadline is February 27, 2009. C2S Student Research Program Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research is pleased to announce a Student Research Grant Program, supported by a Developmental Infrastructure for Population Research award from NICHD. Although the program is directed primarily toward graduate students, post-doctoral research fellows may also apply. Third annual Summer Biomarker Institute was a success The 2008 Summer Institute focused again on salivary and blood spot biomarkers in addition to anthropometry, actigraphy, and ethics. The SBI Co-Directors also highlighted theoretical perspectives on the role of biology in the social sciences. Demographer Alberto Palloni is past president of the Population Association of America. His research interests include the relationship between health and social stratification; models for the spread of HIV/AIDS; mathematical and statistical applications to demographic problems; mortality and fertility; and the relationship between population and development. Palloni is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and part of the National Academy of Sciences panel investigating the determinants of race and ethnic differentials in health and mortality among elderly adults in the U.S. Biomarker seed grants available for Northwestern faculty members and research faculty Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research is pleased to announce a new Biomarker Seed Grant Program, supported by a Developmental Infrastructure for Population Research award from NICHD. Any Northwestern faculty member or research faculty may apply. C2S featured in the Northwestern Observer Study by Emma Adam on emotional fatigue and stress hormones to be published C2S Executive Board Member Emma Adam is lead investigator of a study on everyday emotional fatigue and the stress hormone coritsol, to be published online by the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Adam suggests that coritsol helps those who go to bed emotionally fatigued overcome demands the next day. McDade featured in Chicago Tribune article The Chicago Tribune interviewed C2S Associate Director Thomas McDade about his work with biomarkers in the study of social influences on health. Richeson named MacArthur Fellow C2S congratulates faculty member Jennifer Richeson as a newly selected MacArthur Fellow. Richeson, an associate professor of psychology and an IPR faculty fellow, received one of the MacArthur Foundation's most prestigious awards, the so-called "genius grant." She was recognized for her studies of interracial contact and dynamics. 21st Century Look at Health and Inequality Duncan elected President of Population Association of America C2S congratulates Executive Board Member Greg Duncan as the newly elected President of the Population Association of America (PAA). The achievement recognizes Duncan’s leading role in population-related, multidisciplinary research. Duncan will succeed outgoing president Alberto Palloni of the University of Wisconsin – Madison as the head of the organization. Duncan is currently the elected Vice President and has served on various PAA committees since 1992, including the Committee on Population Statistics and the Board of Directors from 1997 to 2000. The Population Association of America (PAA) is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human race through research of problems related to human population. PAA members include demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals, psychologists, and other individuals interested in research and education in the population field. PAA publishes the leading population journal Demography, and its national membership exceeds 3,000 professionals in the population field. Visit their website at http://www.popassoc.org for more details. C2S receives $1.2 million from NICHD’s Population Research Infrastructure Program As of July 1, 2006, Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research will receive $1.2 million in R21 developmental infrastructure support from the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). NICHD supports infrastructure for research that is relevant to the mission of DBSB at leading universities and research centers throughout the United States. The central goal of the Population Research Infrastructure Program is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in population research, while providing essential and cost-effective resources in support of the development, conduct, and translation of population research. C2S now joins 20 other universities nationwide that are supported by NICHD’s Population Research Infrastructure Program. Roberts secures NSF funding for investigation of ethics and race-based biotechnology C2S Executive Board member Dorothy Roberts recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for an examination of race-based biotechnology and racial consciousness in social policy. Responding to the intense debate among genetic and social scientists about the appropriate use of race as a category for scientific research, Roberts, a faculty member at the School of Law, will engage race equality law and legal norms to help construct a framework for evaluating the ethical use of race in biotechnology research and products. The aim of the project is to provide practical guidance to researchers and policy makers charged with determining the proper role of race as a scientific category.
C2S featured in current
issue of CenterPiece C2S is featured in the current Fall 2005 issue of CenterPiece. CenterPiece is a quarterly publication published by the Office of Research which features news and achievements of the Northwestern University research centers. The publcation highlights the achievements of these centers of excellence and their members. The centers featured across the university are engaged in research in the basic sciences, business, engineering, humanities, industry and social sciences. You can read and download the full article at the CenterPiece website. C2S
Introductory Conference The introductory conference for C2S was held June 6, 2005 at Northwestern University's Evanston campus. The conference was designed to promote greater synergy among social, biomedical, and life scientists on campus. The C2S social scientists - who include experts in policy, social inequality, human development, and the psychobiology of stress and immunity - learned about the research of their colleagues in life and biomedical sciences at Northwestern and discussed the center's first research programs. You can access the conference agenda and links to faculty presentations here.
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