Joseph E. Steinmetz, Executive Dean and Vice Provost, and Gifford Weary, Divisional Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, announced today the re-appointment of John Casterline, Professor of Sociology, as director of the Institute for Population Research effective July 1. Casterline’s term will run from July 1, 2013 to August 31, 2017.

 

The IPR is a nationally recognized multidisciplinary research center with signature strengths in the study of family demography, population health, immigration and integration, with behavioral and health scientists/affiliates from eight colleges and seventeen departments across the university. The institute was established in 2000 as the Initiative in Population Research. In 2012, the Ohio State Faculty Senate approved IPR’s proposal to become a university center and to rename it the Institute for Population Research. A member of the Association of Population Centers, IPR is the centerpiece of Ohio State’s Population and Health Targeted Investments in Excellence (TIE).

 

Casterline has served as director of IPR since 2009 and was instrumental in securing a highly-competitive five-year $2.2 million national center award from the National Institutes of Health.