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Category: CMAC Network

Q&A with Rachel Bacon

May 14, 2021 Nicole Smith CMAC Network, Latest Updates, Modeling Religious Change

In the summer of 2020, CMAC brought on our first full-time demographer, Rachel Bacon. Rachel is working on the Modeling Religious Change project, adapting traditional demography methods to cooperate with[…]

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Rachel Bacon

Meet Rachel Bacon, Postdoctoral Fellow

March 1, 2021 Nicole Smith CMAC Network, Meet CMAC

Last year, Rachel Bacon started at CMAC as a Postdoctoral Fellow working full-time on the Modeling Religious Change project. She has a wide variety of academic experience in sociology and[…]

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Meet George Hodulik, Creative Solutions Designer

September 29, 2020 Nicole Smith CMAC Network, Meet CMAC

Earlier this year, we welcomed George Hodulik to the CMAC team as a Creative Solutions Designer. George comes to CMAC with years of technical experience in software engineering and an[…]

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Meet Dave Rohr, Postdoctoral Fellow and Executive Assistant

August 21, 2020 Nicole Smith CMAC Network, Meet CMAC

Dave Rohr has been in the CMAC network since 2013 as a doctoral fellow. He’s now stepping into a new role as a postdoctoral fellow and joining the admin staff[…]

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Q&A with shaunesse’ jacobs

July 8, 2020 Nicole Smith Black Maternal Mortality, CMAC Network, Latest Updates

One of CMAC’s newest projects is Black Maternal Mortality, which is looking at data from Boston hospitals to learn more about the underlying conditions that cause maternal mortality rates to[…]

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Meet Our Summer Researchers

July 26, 2019 Nicole Smith CMAC Network, Meet CMAC

Our three summer researchers are hard at work on various projects. Learn more about the research they’re working on, the impacts it could have, and what our researchers like to[…]

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Meet Nicole Smith, Admin & Communications Coordinator

May 15, 2019 Administrator CMAC Network, Meet CMAC

We’re excited to bring Nicole Smith on board as our Administration and Communications Coordinator at CMAC. Find out a little more about her! How did you come to work at[…]

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