Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series

Fall 2008 MPC seminar series

schedule and presentation abstracts

Click here download a PDF document of the Spring 2008 MPC Seminar Series flier.
MPC Seminars are held in 50 Willey Hall on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus.

Speaker Biographies

Monday
September 15, 2008
12:15 to 1:15 PM

The 2010 Census: Promoting a complete count

Barbara Iverson, Weber Shandwick

Monday
September 22, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

The embedded library: Leveraging systems in research workflow

Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Libraries, University of Minnesota

Monday
September 29, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

2008 population census of Sudan: Challenges and prospects

Professor Dr. Awad Hag Ali Ahmed,
Al-Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan

Monday
October 6, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Labeling death: The link between race, hypertension prevalence and hypertension related death

Quincy Thomas Stewart, Department of Sociology, Indiana University

Monday
October 13, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

MPC Interdisciplinary Research Fellows joint presentation

Misty Heggeness, Karen Kramer, and Johanna Leinonen, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

Monday
October 20, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

The National Children's Study

Pat McGovern, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Monday
October 27, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

The impact of mortgage foreclosures on the immigrant population of Minneapolis

Ryan Allen, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Monday
November 3, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Social determinants of population health: Understanding social disparities within and across time

Lisa F. Berkman, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Monday
November 10, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

The future of socioeconomic forecasting at the Metropolitan Council

Todd Graham, Metropolitan Council Research

Monday
November 17, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

General education versus vocational training: Evidence from an economy in transition

Kiki Cristian Pop-Eleches, Economics Department, Columbia University

Monday
December 1, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Marginalization matters: Rethinking race in the analysis of state politics and policy.

Joe Soss, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Monday
December 8, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Spatiotemporal analysis of West Nile virus indices in Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of Minnesota

Debs Ghosh, Geography Department, University of Minnesota

Past Series