The 2026 CLALS Graduate & Undergraduate Research Symposium, Friday, April 24, in McNeil 473, will include two GGD students between 12:05-12:35 pm:

➡️ Magdalena Delaporte
&
➡️ Catalina Bravo

View Details & RSVP: clals.sas.upenn.edu/events/clalsis-graduate-...

SEE YOU LATER TODAY for the PAA Practice Talks! Eight GGD students will present: Abby Lim, Emily Curran, Katelyn Kim, Nazar Khalid, Chunyong Chen, Kathryn O'Neill, Catalina Bravo, Adriana Scanteianu

Monday, April 20, 2026, 11:45 AM to 2:25 PM, PSC Commons, McNeil 403

Pizza 🍕 for lunch

REMINDER JOIN US TOMORROW for the PAA Practice Talks! Eight GGD students will present: Abby Lim, Emily Curran, Katelyn Kim, Nazar Khalid, Chunyong Chen, Kathryn O'Neill, Catalina Bravo, Adriana Scanteianu

Monday, April 20, 2026, 11:45 AM to 2:25 PM, PSC Commons, McNeil 403

Pizza 🍕 for lunch

JOIN US ON MONDAY for the PAA Practice Talks! Eight GGD students will present: Abby Lim, Emily Curran, Katelyn Kim, Nazar Khalid, Chunyong Chen, Kathryn O'Neill, Catalina Bravo, Adriana Scanteianu

Monday, April 20, 2026, 11:45 AM to 2:25 PM, PSC Commons, McNeil 403

Pizza 🍕 for lunch

Read this NEW paper in Population & Development Review

➡️ "Population Changes and Emerging Challenges to Global Primary Education Provision"

By Emily Hannum (PSC Research Associate), Jeonghyeok Kim, & Fan Wang (PSC Research Affiliate)

https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.70059

Find the PSC on LinkedIn!

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TODAY Monday, April 13, 2026 from 12-1 pm in the PSC Commons, McNeil 403

“Spousal Migration, Social Ties, and Loneliness Among Married Adults 'Left Behind' in Indonesia”

Please join us for our next Population Studies Colloquium with Sneha Kumar!

https://bit.ly/3OoyU7W

Join us TOMORROW for our next Population Studies Colloquium with Sneha Kumar on

Monday, April 13, 2026 from 12-1 pm in the PSC Commons, McNeil 403

“Spousal Migration, Social Ties, and Loneliness Among Married Adults 'Left Behind' in Indonesia”

https://bit.ly/3OoyU7W

Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020–2021.

In a new study out in Science Advances, we estimated that 19% more COVID-19 deaths than those officially reported occurred in the United States between March 2020 and December 2021.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#demography #epidemiology #COVID-19

Please join us for our next Population Studies Colloquium with Sneha Kumar on

Monday, April 13, 2026 from 12-1 pm in the PSC Commons, McNeil 403

“Spousal Migration, Social Ties, and Loneliness Among Married Adults 'Left Behind' in Indonesia”

https://bit.ly/3OoyU7W

TODAY Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Behind Bars, Beyond Health: Equity and Incarceration in America

w/ Jason Schnittker, Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration, moderator Rachel M. Werner
share.hsforms.com/1L8rVBlfZSBS...

TODAY, Monday, April 6th, from 12-1 pm:

“The Growing Issue of Homelessness/Housing Insecurity and Aging”

(PARC AGING CHATS) – HYBRID EVENT PSC Commons, McNeil 403 & Zoom

with Rebecca T. Brown & Dennis P. Culhane

Please join us on Monday, April 6th, from 12-1 pm for:

“The Growing Issue of Homelessness/Housing Insecurity and Aging”

(PARC AGING CHATS) – HYBRID EVENT PSC Commons, McNeil 403 & Zoom (ID: 985 8602 2194 & Code: 055266)

with Rebecca T. Brown & Dennis P. Culhane

There are more than 100 working papers by @pennpsc.bsky.social and @pennaging.bsky.social researchers in the Population Center Working Papers Series!

TAKE A LOOK:
https://www.pop.upenn.edu/working-papers-v2

Infant Mortality Fell for Decades. Why Did That Stop?

Infant Mortality Fell for Decades. Why Did That Stop?

@atheendar.bsky.social is quoted in this @nytimes.com article

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/headway/infan...

Please join us for the next Population Studies Colloquium on Monday, 3/30 12-1pm in PSC Commons (McNeil 403)

📌 “Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries”

➡️ with Orestes “Pat” Hastings

https://bit.ly/4swxxTq

Please join us for the next Population Studies Colloquium on Monday, 3/30 12-1pm in PSC Commons (McNeil 403)

📌 “Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries”

➡️ with Orestes “Pat” Hastings

https://bit.ly/4swxxTq

What is design thinking, and how can research teams use it? - Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) Learn from CHIBE Scientific Director Dr. Alison Buttenheim about what design thinking is and how she can support CHIBE investigators.

📐 What is design thinking, and how can research teams use it?

Dr. Alison Buttenheim (PSC Associate) discusses what design thinking is & how it can support investigators in carrying out design-informed activities within research projects. @PennCHIBE

https://bit.ly/4ssqj2Q

The James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies (co-sponsored by the PSC) is pleased to host the Global Korea Agenda Roundtable, “Fertility in Korea and Beyond,” on April 10, 2026.

RSVP by March 27th to attend: https://bit.ly/4rTgZ75

See details: https://bit.ly/3NYZT9V

TODAY PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM

3/23 | 12 - 1PM | PSC Commons (McNeil 403)

Mao-Mei Liu of @UCBerkeley presents

Nurturing Diversity in Science as Resistance

READ MORE:
https://bit.ly/4rUc1b8

Image card which reads vacancy alert Senior Policy Fellow - Unit Director. There are 3 descriptors that can be found in more detail via the link attached. Deadline is Wednesday 25 March 2026

Last chance to apply! ⏰

LSE Health is recruiting a Senior Policy Fellow (Unit Director) to lead global research on sustainable & resilient health systems through PHSSR.

Deadline: Wednesday 25th March 2026

Don’t miss out!

Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4rGFbue

🚨PhDs in demography, sociology, public health, biomedical science....

Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity to work in the new and growing area of "medical demography" with Dr. Marcus Ebeling!

www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read about all Dream Lab courses and register (while early bird pricing is still on!) here 🌩️

On Friday, April 17, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social will deliver a talk that considers the status of writing in the present moment not from the qualitative question of whether AI can write better than humans, but from the stance of political economy.

Tues. March 31: @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social leads another session in The Digital Humanist's Helpdesk series! This hybrid workshop will introduce users to GitHub, a platform that can help you to 1) code collaboratively, 2) share your code with an online community, or 3) create your own website.

Next week at the Price Lab: a GIS Workshop 🗺️

Join us March 20 from 4pm-6pm in Williams 616 to learn the basics of georeferencing, the first step in extracting historical spatial data. Register now: forms.gle/JuA5cMixshv7tC6k7

Next Monday, March 23, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

Find the PSC on LinkedIn!

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Linda Aiken to Receive ANA President’s Award Linda Aiken, PhD, RN, has been named recipient of the American Nurses Association’s President’s Award for her global research achievements

🥳Congratulations to LDI Fellow Linda Aiken of Penn Nursing! She is the recipient of the 2026 President’s Award from @americannurses.bsky.social

Aiken is being honored for her work that has radically transformed international nursing standards. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ur6ri8

How Collective Intelligence Could Soon Reshape Medical Decision-Making Advances in network science, artificial intelligence, and clinician networks may shift medical decisions from individual doctors to groups—and even AI models—at scale.

New @forbes.com article includes insights from Prof. Damon Centola's research on how information-exchange networks can reduce medical errors and decrease bias among clinicians: www.forbes.com/sites/spence...