The Annual Upstate Population Workshop took place Oct. 19 at A.D. White House on the Cornell campus, bringing together over 40 population scholars across upstate New York to share research and discuss common challenges and opportunities in population science.

The half-day event acted as an opportunity for population scholars in upstate New York to discuss common research interests and includes faculty, postdocs, and students from CPC, Syracuse University, the State Universities of New York at Albany and Buffalo, and Rochester University.

“The research presented addressed pressing social demographic issues of our day, including new insights into the opioid epidemic, family support networks and aging, racial inequality and children’s life chances, and neighborhood influences on health,” said Kelly Musick, professor of policy analysis and management and CPC director. “The workshop fosters a community of population scholars in the region and furthers CPC’s efforts to train and support the next generation of population scholars.”

The CPC is a university-wide center with over 150 faculty, postdoctoral, and student affiliates from departments and colleges across campus. It fosters collaboration and innovation in population science through cross-cutting training programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels; seminars and other events that increase the visibility of the population sciences at Cornell; and hands-on mentorship and administrative support for external grant-getting.

The Workshop included forums for informal discussion of work-in-progress and common challenges and opportunities in population research. Roundtables, on topics ranging from school progression and education outcomes, to policy and fertility decisions, to caregiving across the life course, provided a forum for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to discuss work-in-progress, and the afternoon panel showcased scholars new to our community.

The Conference is a long-standing collaboration between the Cornell Population Center and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies at Syracuse University, expanding in recent years to SUNY at Albany and Buffalo and the University of Rochester.

For further CPC Upstate Population Workshop information, visit - http://cpc.cornell.edu/seminars-events/upstate-ny-population-workshop/