I am grateful for the introduction to the scientific study of societal issues that I received in selected courses in economics, psychology, and sociology as an undergraduate at Central.
– Gordon De Jong ’57
The IUSSP Council has selected Gordon De Jong to be its 30th Laureate in recognition of his groundbreaking work on migration, including migration theory and his service to the training of demographers from all over the world in a career spanning nearly half a century.
