Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Identical Triplets!

Parfait Gasana, the co-recipient of the 2009 Odum Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Sociology at UNC, with his identical triplet brothers. They were the first known identical triplets born in Rwanda--and apparently doctors came from all over to have a look!

With two of my best students

Parfait Gasana and Mary Torr were two of the best students in the first class I ever taught at UNC: Sociology/Management 415: Economy and Society (Fall 2007).

Mary Torr and Family


After three years in the Navy and having three boys, Mary Torr enrolled at UNC. After graduation, she will pursue a Master's in Social Work at NC State. She wrote a senior thesis on children in foster care.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Reuniting with international friends

I was the discussant on a panel about educational attainment. One of the presenters was Silvia Giorguli, the former Vice-President of the Mexican Society of Demography. I first met Silvia and the Mexican Society of Demography meetings in Merida, Mexico, in October 2008.

My poster session

I explained my poster to new people as well as to many old friends from Princeton who came by to say hello, like Monica Espinoza-Higgins. My friend Cris Beauchemin from the French National Institute for Demography (INED) also came by, and I was very happy to speak about demography in French for a while.

Friday, May 1, 2009