March 15, 2011 www.usnews.com The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health appears on several lists of schools, programs and specialty areas newly ranked by U.S. News and World Report for the 2012 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. Notably, the School was ranked #2 overall in the nation for its master’s and doctoral degree... Read more »
February 21, 2011 Bans on using credit cards to pay for cigarettes bought on Internet sites – combined with bans on commercial shippers delivering the products – appear to have effectively reduced the size and reach of the online cigarette sales industry, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. Dr.... Read more »
December 17, 2010 Twelve current and former undergraduates studying at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health recently were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored of college honorary societies. Leah Vance Brittany Papworth The eight students recently inducted are Katherine Wesley Byerly, of Chapel Hill, N.C., senior health policy... Read more »
December 09, 2010 Keith Funkhouser William K. “Keith” Funkhouser III, a double major in biology and biostatistics at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been selected as one of eight UNC undergraduates who will study in Asia next spring as Phillips Ambassadors. Funkhouser, a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science... Read more »
November 29, 2010 * Our article uses the title of a popular treatise by Dr. Barry Popkin, The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race (New York, Penguin Books, 2008). For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/theworldisfat. Across North Carolina and around the world, researchers from UNC Gillings School... Read more »
Congratulations, Team BIOS half marathon finishers! From left to right: Jennifer Clark, Hinar Polczer, Lauren Paynter, Melissa Hobgood, Denise Esserman, Alison Wise, Betsy Seagroves, Haibo Zhou, Jieli Ding, Wei Sun, Fei Zou, Jianwen Cai. In front: Monika Soria Caruso Several Biostatistics students, employees, and faculty completed the Outer Banks Half Marathon on Sunday, November 14.... Read more »
November 19, 2010 Two members of the public health faculty have been reappointed to lead their departments in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dean Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, has announced. The reappointments follow upon the favorable reviews of their first terms as chairs. Dr. Michael Kosorok Dr. June Stevens Michael Kosorok,... Read more »
November 10, 2010 Dr. Gordon-Larsen Obese adolescents are 16 times more likely to become severely obese by age 30 than their healthy weight or even overweight peers, according to a new study led by Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, associate professor of nutrition in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Public health researchers found... Read more »
November 04, 2010 Yingqi Zhao Yingqi Zhao, biostatistics doctoral student at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association’s Statistics in Epidemiology Section. Zhao presented her research and received the award at the August Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver. The JSM... Read more »
November 01, 2010 Research from UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health will be well represented by faculty, staff and student presenters at the American Public Health Association’s 138th annual meeting, to be held in Denver on Nov. 6-10. The theme of the 2010 event is “Social Justice.”A listing of School presentations appears below. Of... Read more »
