Our first brownbag seminar of 2026 will be held on Wednesday, January 28, 12pm, with Henry E. Brady, Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC, Berkeley. Professor Brady will present “How Should We Use Time-Series Trends, Statistical Models, and Scenarios to Inform Future Public Policies?”. The full event […]

We invite affiliates of UC Berkeley Population Sciences to submit an abstract for the 2026 Spring Symposium on Population Research, held in person on Friday, April 17, 2026 on campus at the Faculty Club. This event is jointly sponsored by the NIH-supported Berkeley Population Center and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. […]

As we embark upon the spring semester of 2026, we warmly welcome you back!   We are delighted to announce that our brownbag seminar series faculty organizers, Dennis Feehan and Ayesha Mahmud, have once again planned a stellar line-up this spring, including scholars such as Jessica Ho, Serina Cheng, Dan Zeltzer, and many more. Please join […]

As we wrap up the end of fall semester 2025 and close out the calendar year, it is with pleasure that we share the news of our first cohort of the Bashir Ahmed Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Juana Montoya Murillo and Chris Soria! The Ahmed awards support students who intend to pursue a research career in population science, […]

The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) is pleased to announce a new call for pilot grants for faculty affiliates. Pilot grant proposals submitted by February 1, 2026 will be given full consideration, but grant submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis pending availability of funds. We give funding priority to projects aligned with the mission […]

Join us this Wednesday, December 3rd, 12pm, for our end of the year ‘Population Sciences Lunch,’ co-hosted by BPC and CEDA, held in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences. Come gather with your community of population researchers. You are all invited, and lunch will be provided. Just bring yourselves!  Featured affiliate research of the week: Structural racism and perinatal mental health […]

Be sure to join us after the Thanksgiving break on Wednesday, December 3rd, 12pm, for our end of the year ‘Population Sciences Lunch,’ co-hosted by BPC and CEDA, held in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences. Come gather with your community of population researchers. You are all invited, and lunch will be provided. Just bring […]

We are delighted to announce a new seminar series, ‘Population Biology and Ecology of Infectious Diseases,’ beginning spring semester 2026. The series is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Population Center and the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases. Our hope is to create a sustained community of scholars working on infectious disease dynamics across disciplinary boundaries.  […]

We share the sad news of the passing of Eugene “Gene” Hammel, at the age 95. Professor Hammel was an enormously influential anthropologist and demographer, making serious theoretical and methodological contributions to our field. His specializations included social structure and kinship; peasant society and culture; social theory; anthropological linguistics; historical demography; theory and the philosophy of […]

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brains Sciences (FABBS) is circulating a community sign-on letter urging Congress to sustain funding for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the FY 2026 appropriations process. The letter emphasizes the importance of retaining the Senate’s report language supporting the […]