🥳 Huge congrats to affiliate, Shannon Monnat @smonnat ‼️ Her co-authored book, Rural & Small-Town America, wins the 2025 Rural Sociological Society’s Frederick H. Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award 👏 A must-read: https://t.co/CH4WfqB0gZ

Join us in congratulating Haowei Wang, assistant professor of sociology, for being named a 2025-26 Association of Population Centers Fellow. Her research focuses on understanding the social determinants of healthy aging in a global context. @PopCenters

CAPS affiliate, Catherine Garcia @LaGerontologa has a new #SULerner brief❗️See below:

📣 New co-authored article by CAPS affiliate, Andrew London, finds #Military service of siblings/parents linked to 📈 higher suicidality in #teens, w girls more affected‼️ Urgent need for family-focused suicide prevention in military families. Learn more:

📢Haowei Wang, a sociology professor @MaxwellSU, is this week's affiliate❗️ Haowei's research & teaching interests are in population aging, family demography, COVID-19 & health outcomes, and intergenerational relations. Learn more about Haowei: https://t.co/UnMru9yu6S

Don't forget! 📅 Our methodology workshop co-hosted by @PopulationCU is happening TOMORROW Feb 2nd, at 12pm EST. You don't want to miss everything @coady_wing will be demonstrating. See you there!

📅 Mark your calendars for the CAPS and @PopulationCU methodology workshop happening February 2, 2024 at 12pm EST. @coady_wing will introduce the basics of event study designs and discuss examples from recent applications using Stata and R. 💻 More info: https://t.co/MVO4v6zfNu

Don't forget to mark your calendars! The CAPS 2023 Visiting Scholar keynote will be given by Hui Zheng and will be focused on health trends in the US. We look forwarding to seeing you there! 📅 When: October 27th @ 10:30am EST 💻 Zoom link: https://t.co/hJiMnBOowu

🚨New @NIH funding opportunity is about to open up! 🚨

Catherine García's #research studies how and why the fastest-growing segment of older adults in the U.S.—those of Hispanic/Latine origin—are at higher risk for chronic diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Professors Prema Kurien and Janet Wilmoth were honored by the @ASAnews, and several colleagues were elected to leadership positions. Read more: https://t.co/BnMLYFX5ze @AgingStudiesSU @CPRMaxwell @SULernerCenter @SUMoynihanInst

This week's featured publication is from CAPS affiliates Merril Silverstein and Maria Brown! Along with their coauthors, they find that shifts in gender values were associated with ⬇️ in religious intensity but not attendance. Read the full article here: https://t.co/rnVlobbTob

Happening today! The agenda now includes a discussion of the recent NIMHD Advisory Committee rejection of designating people with disabilities as a health disparity population. There is still time to register! Join us! @scottdlandes @DisabilityHERN

Don't forget our first seminar of the fall semester is THIS FRIDAY!! Add it to your calendar and join us at 12pm EST to see Gopi Shah Goda discuss the connection between research and policy. Need the zoom link? You can find it here:

An article co-authored with @smonnat, CPR Director and Senior Research Associate, was published in @socscimed. Click the link to view the article! https://t.co/Q9c8X7OVUu @MaxwellSU

Happy Monday! 📅 This week's affiliate profile is Douglas Wolf. Doug is an emeritus professor of public administration. He focuses on the economic, demographic, & social aspects of #aging and long-term care. Read his full profile here: https://t.co/1SVapYKi4o @AgingStudiesSU

Check out our paper on how electoral democracy is associated negatively with mortality in the U.S.!

This month's @DisabilityHERN Flash Talk features Lerner Center Graduate Research Assistant, Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich. Register here: https://t.co/hrX9uwKvrf @scottdlandes @CAPS_research @AgingStudiesSU

⭐ NEW on https://t.co/wVhVUB2ptm: Our interactive table w/ @nia_demography lets you explore the connection between specific U.S. state policies & premature deaths among adults ages 25-64, including deaths of despair from overdose, alcohol abuse, & suicide

When it comes to the #overdose crisis, both supply & demand have been driven by bad federal and state policy choices, nefarious corporate behaviors, & a neoliberal policy regime that prioritizes maximizing profit over protecting population health.