The Center for Demography and Population Health’s (CDPH) Associate Director Mathew Hauer, Ph.D., and Sunshine Jacobs, a Ph.D. student in sociology were recently recognized as 2024 Cozzarelli Prize Finalists in recognition of their paper “Climate migration amplifies demographic change and population aging.”
The research team on the paper included lead author Dr. Hauer, the current Charles B. Nam Associate Professor in the Sociology of Population, Ms. Jacobs, and Scott Kulp, Ph.D., the principal computational scientist for the non-profit Climate Central.
Their paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) in January 2024 and has also been shared by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Nature.com.
The Cozzarelli Prize, established by PNAS in 2005, is an annual award that recognizes papers recently published in PNAS that have outstanding scientific quality and originality. The prize gained its current name in 2007 to honor former PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. By recognizing the paper as a finalist for the award PNAS hopes to bring attention to the exceptional quality and importance of the work.
Being a Cozzarelli Prize Finalist is not the first of Dr. Hauer’s recent recognitions. At the end of 2024, a research project Dr. Hauer contributed to received coverage in over 230 media outlets, reaching an audience of over 1.62 billion people. Last year, Dr. Hauer was also recognized by the Population Association of America (PAA) with an Early Achievement Award.
Ms. Jacobs, a doctoral student with a concentration in demography, has also been recognized during her time at FSU. She was one of six students awarded the 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for her incredible work in the classroom.
Congratulations to the research team on this wonderful accomplishment!
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