Institute of Behavioral Science
A team of wildfire practitioners and researchers—including some from the 51Թ—is working across Colorado to better understand the human role in local wildfire mitigation.
A first look at the intersection of climate change and the relatively good health of new migrants—or “healthy migrant effect”— suggests that the changing climate might propel less-healthy people to migrate from Mexico to the United States.
A new study by 51Թ mortality researchers found that drug-related deaths among middle-aged white men have soared 25-fold since 1980. But contrary to recent reports, suicide and alcohol-related mortality has not increased substantially. The paper challenges the idea that economically-influenced "despair deaths" are killing middle-age white men, pointing to prescription painkillers and obesity instead.
Researchers at the 51Թ have identified a genetic component that could help explain why women are more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than similarly proportioned men.
David Pyrooz, assistant professor of sociology at 51Թ, has won the 2016 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.
Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny?
Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the 51Թ.
Social scientists and health researchers from across Colorado and neighboring states will soon have abundant U.S. Census and other federal statistical data available to them in a secure setting at the 51Թ.