The Population Association of America announced that Narayan Sastry has been elected to their 12-person Board of Directors. His 3-year term begins January 1, 2013.

PSC trainee Tanya Byker has won a 2012 dissertation fellowship to study the impact of fertility timing on labor force outcomes in the United States, Peru and South Africa. The 2-year fellowship is awarded by the the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Institute of International Education.

Lauren Nicholas, Kenneth Langa, Theodore Iwashyna, and David Weir have received the 2012 article-of-the-year award from Academy Health for their *JAMA* article [“Regional Variation in the Association Between Advance Directives and End-of-Life Medicare.”](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1104465) The annual award recognizes the best scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy have produced and published.

The Henry Russel Lectureship is awarded each year to a U-M professor in recognition of exceptional achievements in research, scholarship or creative endeavors, and an outstanding record of teaching, mentoring and service. The selection of James House for this honor recognizes his work in the etiology and course of health and illness, including social disparities… Continue reading James House named Henry Russel Lecturer for 2013 by U-M Regents

Maria Krysan, Mick Couper, Ren Farley and Tyrone Forman have received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from [ASA’s Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section](http://www2.asanet.org/sectionrem/awards.html). The award, which recognizes the best research article in the sociological study of race and ethnicity during the prior 3 years, is for their 2009 *AJS* article [“Does Race Matter in Neighborhood… Continue reading Krysan, Couper, Farley and Forman receive ASA award for AJS article

Mary Beth Ofstedal has won the 2012 Research Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President for Research. This award is given in recognition of “outstanding scholarly achievements, as represented by significant contributions to an academic field of study over time, a specific outstanding discovery, or the development of innovative… Continue reading Mary Beth Ofstedal wins U-M Research Faculty Achievement Award

Martha Bailey’s paper (with William Collins): [“Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish,”](http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs/7309) in the April 2011 issue of *American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics,* is the co-winner of the 2011 Best Published Work using IPUMS-USA/IPUMS-CPS data. The award is made by the Minnesota Population Center, home… Continue reading Martha Bailey winner of 2011 IPUMS Research Award

The Association of Population Centers has named Pamela Smock as the organization’s president for a two-year term. The APC is an independent group of university- and research organization-based centers that work together to foster collaborative demographic research and data sharing, disseminate research findings to policy makers, and support training in population studies.

Elisha Renne has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012. She is one of 181 mid-career scholars, artists, and scientists currently supported by Guggenheim for both their prior achievement and their exceptional promise. Renne’s current work looks at the material expression — particularly, in veils and turbans — of religious reform in Nigeria.