Professor of Demography and Statistics, Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
Office: 2232 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, California 94720-2120
Phone 510-642-1578; Fax 510-643-8558
Electronic Mail: kenwachter at berkeley dot edu
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NEWS
Ken continues as Professor of the Graduate School at UCB. An overview of a forthcoming chapter on Genetic Evolutionary Demography has been posted online. On 29 June 2018 ``The Plateau of Mortality: Demography of Longevity Pioneers'' appeared in the journal Science, by Elisabetta Barbi, Francesco Lagona, Marco Marsili, Jim Vaupel, and Ken Wachter. It has been featured in news stories by the New York Times, Washington Post, the BBC, PBS, and two dozen other media.
Ken and Bernadette attended the Fiftieth Reunion of the Harvard Class of 1968 in late May 2018.