UNC public health expert awarded Fulbright grant to compare skin, breast cancers from N.C., Ireland
| June 15, 2005 | |
| CHAPEL HILL — Robert C. Millikan, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to perform research and lecture at University College in Dublin, Ireland, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.Also a member of UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Millikan will collaborate with investigators at the Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, an interdisciplinary group studying malignant melanoma and other cancers.
Specifically, he will compare melanoma tumors from North Carolina and Ireland to determine whether differences in sunlight exposure and sun sensitivity have an effect on the type of tumors that occur in the two areas. He will also use proteomics and genomics to compare breast tumors from North Carolina and Ireland. The UNC scholar is one of about 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2005-2006 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. During the program’s first 57 years, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.
Note: Millikan can be reached at (919) 966-7437 News Services contact: David Williamson, (919) 962-8596 For further information please contact Ramona DuBose by email at ramona_dubose@unc.edu |
