Gillings School alumna awarded Fogarty Global Health Fellowship
August 1, 2017 Dr. Amy Huber, 2017 alumna in epidemiology, is one of 18 recipients of a 2017-2018 UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship. The fellowship provides training opportunities in global health research for selected junior faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral scholars. Huber will live and work in South Africa.
School leaders welcome new faculty members, announce promotions
July 27, 2017 This list includes new faculty members and faculty promotions for the period between December 2016 and June 2017.
Water Institute researcher wins ‘Editor’s Choice’ award for journal article
July 20, 2017 David Fuente, a lead scientist at The Water Institute, was senior author of an article that won an Editor’s Choice Award from the journal Water Resources Research. Photo from Nairobi water treatment plant by Georgina Smith.
NIH renews UNC Gillings environmental health sciences training grant for ninth time
July 19, 2017 The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has renewed a major training grant that the Gillings School has led since 1971. The program supports scholars in biostatistics, epidemiology and environmental sciences and engineering, many of whom have gone on to affect national environmental policy.
Surratt recognized by environmental journal as ‘highly prolific’ author
July 18, 2017 Dr. Jason Surratt was honored by Environmental Science and Technology Letters as an author who has had a high publication rate in the journal over the past five years.
Stillo to investigate communicating health risk to private well owners
July 17, 2017 Frank Stillo, a graduate student at UNC Gillings, has received a prestigious grant award to research public health communications related to clean water access in North Carolina.
Halpern selected for NIH study section
July 17, 2017 Dr. Carolyn T. Halpern has been named a member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior Student Section for the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review, effective July 1.
MacDonald Gibson honored with ‘Best Presentation’ award at conference
July 7, 2017 Dr. Jackie MacDonald Gibson received a “Best Presentation” award at the conference of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), held June 20-22 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Biostatistics’ Li named to three-year term on NIH study section
June 21, 2017 Dr. Yun Li has been named for a three-year term to the Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology Study Section for the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review.
Mayer-Davis featured in The Lancet as leader in diabetes research
June 2, 2017 Nutrition chair and distinguished professor Elizabeth Mayer-Davis is profiled in the June 1 issue of The Lancet as a leader in diabetes research.
