The annual meeting of the Population Association of America includes 42 PSTC affiliates on the program.

PSTC faculty associates Mark Lurie and Abigail Harrison recently traveled to South Africa to convene the 5th annual SASH forum.

PSTC Trainee Adedotun Ogunbajo has been selected for the U.S. Policy Communication Training program offered by the Population Reference Bureau.

PSTC sociologist and demographer Elizabeth Fussell convenes conference to address impacts of hurricanes on Puerto Rico's population and economy.

The PSTC will host a reception for PSTC and Brown University friends and alumni during the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.

Associate Professor of Sociology Margot Jackson to participate in March 22 panel on the landmark Coleman Report.

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The semi-annual GIS Institute took place in January with two weeks of training and project work.

Associate Professor of Population Studies (Research) Rachel Franklin is now editor of the journal Geographical Analysis. Franklin, who is the associate director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), the spatial core for the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) at Brown, began her three-year term as editor on July 1.

The 28th International Population Conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa, October 29-November 4 with strong representation from PSTC faculty and trainees. The conference, organized by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, takes place once every four years and draws approximately “2,000 population scholars, policy makers, and government officials from around the world to discuss the latest population research and debate pressing global and regional population issues.”

For thirty years, the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) has been collecting survey data in Mexico and the United States on Mexico-U.S. migration. It is the longest on-going study of Mexico-U.S. migration and has transformed the way migration is studied. To celebrate the MMP’s thirtieth anniversary, a bi-lingual conference was convened in Mexico City at El Colegio de México (Colmex) October 26-27.

John Casterline has been elected the president-elect of the Population Association of America. Casterline, now a professor in population studies in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University, was the PSTC director from 1992-1994.

Jerome Marston, a PSTC predoctoral trainee in Political Science, has been awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award.

Brown university has launched a new Mindfulness Center with Associate Professor of Epidemiology Eric Loucks as the director.