Welcome

Welcome to the Arizona State University Center for Population Dynamics (CePoD). CePoD is a transdisciplinary research center drawing scholars who are interested in broad aspects of population research. The Center is located in the Phoenix metropolitan area, a vibrant, rapidly growing urban community of the American Southwest. We pursue novel avenues of population research in local, regional, national and international settings.

News and Events

• Summer@CePoD is back! Informal methodological discussions (with pizza) will be held Wednesdays in June.
• Congratulations to CePoD affiliate Dr. Sarah Hayford, who recently received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!
• Planning has begun for the 2013-2014 CePoD Colloquium Series. Submit suggestions for internal or external speakers to CePoD director Jennifer Glick.
• CePoD student affiliate Seung Yong Han will attend the Environmental Demography short course offered by the Colorado Population Center (CUPC).
• Project to provide first-time, full analysis of US Census data on Tribal Nations in Ariz.
• PAA presentations by CePoD faculty and students
• Rebha Sabharwal, PhD candidate in sociology and CePoD graduate affiliate, has accepted a tenure-track job in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice at SUNY-Freedonia.
• A team of CePoD affiliates, led by director Jennifer Glick, has been awarded seed grant funding from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to study children’s social competence in migrant families in Mexico, Mozambique, and Nepal. The pilot study is part of a larger project analyzing the impact of parental labor migration on child and adolescent outcomes in diverse migration context.
• CePoD affiliate Scott Yabiku has received a grant from NSF to study “Feedbacks Between Human Community Dynamics and Socioecological Vulnerability in a Biodiversity Hotspot.” ASU faculty members Jennifer Glick, Sharon Hall, and Abigail York are co-investigators on the project along with Dirgha Ghimire (University of Michigan), Li An (San Diego State University), and Sean Murphy (CABI). “Feedbacks Between Human Community Dynamics and Socioecological Vulnerability in a Biodiversity Hotspot”
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