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Record number of public health students receives Graduate School’s Impact Award 11 Apr 2013 | 06:36 pm
Gillings School of Global Public Health students won nearly a third of the 2013 Impact Awards presented at the annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration, held April 10 at the George Watts Hill A...
Trees plus man-made emissions create dangerous particulate matter 10 Apr 2013 | 03:08 am
A new study has identified an unexpected source of particulate matter creation that potentially could produce damaging effects on human beings – trees. The study found that isoprene, which is the mos...
Mayer-Davis named interim chair of nutrition 10 Apr 2013 | 01:39 am
Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, professor of nutrition at Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named interim chair of the nutrition department, effective June 1. The nutrition department is ...
Two Gillings entrepreneurs are winners at this year’s Carolina Challenge 9 Apr 2013 | 04:45 am
Two teams of entrepreneurs affiliated with Gillings School of Global Public Health are among the top four Carolina Challenge winners for 2013. Sanitation Creations, founded by environmental sciences ...
UNC partners with dining services provider to help high school students ‘text’ their lunch orders 9 Apr 2013 | 04:27 am
The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention has partnered with Chartwells School Dining Services to study how new technologies could affect school lunch participation rates and healthy ...
Endeavors magazine features Rose Cory’s climate change research 9 Apr 2013 | 03:58 am
In a March 21 posting on the website of Endeavors, UNC’s research magazine, Mark Derewicz writes about Rose Cory, PhD, assistant professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the Gillings Sch...
Rusyn appointed to NRC committees to evaluate human cancer hazard of formaldehyde and styrene 4 Apr 2013 | 08:45 pm
An environmental sciences and engineering professor at Gillings School of Global Public Health once again will lend his expertise to a national group of scientists charged with evaluating the validity...
Public health students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa 3 Apr 2013 | 03:04 am
Seven public health undergraduates at Gillings School of Global Public Health were inducted this spring into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored college honorary society. The inducte...
Higher birth weight, adding height in first two years protects against chronic diseases later 2 Apr 2013 | 09:06 pm
Promoting optimal birth weight and rapid growth in body length during the first two years of life is likely to lead to substantial improvements in adult height and completion of more grades of schooli...
