MPH Nutrition Need-Based Award
Provides funding to MPH Nutrition students who demonstrate financial need. Department of Nutrition Students can apply here. Application Deadline: December 31

Jill and Michael Kafrissen Scholarship in Aging and Public Health*
Provides funds to cover tuition and expenses, including travel and living expenses for performance of a practicum related to aging. Preference for a student who is most capable of making substantive contributions to the field of aging. Department of Nutrition Students can apply here.
Application Deadline: December 31

Jamie Kimble Scholarship for Courage*
Provides funds to cover tuition and expenses of a student seeking a degree at the School of Public Health, including travel and living expenses for performance of a practicum. Preference to students committed to careers in the prevention of domestic violence or to students who have been affected by domestic violence. It is the donors request that applicants submit a 250-350-word paper relating their experience with and/or perspective on domestic violence. Department of Nutrition Students can apply here.
Application Deadline: December 31

*Requires letter of support from faculty mentor be sent to the Academic Program Support Coordinator by the respective deadline.

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Ethel J. Coleman Endowed Scholarship in Nutritional Biochemistry
Recognizes an outstanding doctoral student studying nutritional biochemistry. Department of Nutrition Students can apply here. Application Deadline: January 31

A. Hughes Bryan Outstanding Doctoral Award*
Recognizes doctoral students for outstanding academic performance, GRE scores, community service, papers presented at local and national conferences, and publications. Department of Nutrition Students can apply here.
Application Deadline: January 31

Gillings Dissertation Award
To help students advance dissertation research. Abstracts are reviewed for quality and for the potential for public health impact, dissemination plans, and metrics that measure near- and long-term impact. Students apply here.
Application Deadline: Early February

Department T32 Training Grants*
The Department of Nutrition has two T32 Training Grants (Nutrition and Global Cardio Metabolic Disease) that provide funding to eligible doctoral students. Applications will become available in January. Please contact your Academic Coordinator for additional details.
Application Deadline: April

Impact & Horizon Awards
Recognizes graduate students and recent alumni whose research directly contributes to the well-being of NC citizens and those whose research holds extremely high potential to make a significant contribution to NC citizens and beyond.
Application Deadline: October 5

Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recognizes the highest level of graduate student scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill – for current doctoral students and recent graduates. Application Deadline: November 30

Greenberg Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research*
Recognizes a student in the School of Public Health for excellence in doctoral research. This award has historically been given to a doctoral student who defended his/her dissertation in the previous year. Department of Nutrition Students can apply here. Application Deadline: December 31

*Requires letter of support from faculty mentor be sent to the Academic Coordinator by the respective deadline.

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