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Biostatistics department ranked 4th in nation by U.S. News & World Report

April 15, 2010 UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics has been ranked 4th highest biostatistics department in the nation and tied for 10th overall among doctoral programs in statistics, according to U.S. News & World Report. The new ranking will appear in the magazine’s May issue, which hits newsstands April 27,... Read more »

Ramalingam, biostatistics undergraduate, wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

April 15, 2010 Hari Ramalingam Sendhilnathan “Hari” Ramalingam, a junior majoring in biostatistics and biology, is one of three UNC students selected for the 2010 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the nation’s most prestigious for undergraduate study.   The awards go to outstanding college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural... Read more »

Dustin Long wins University Teaching Award

Biostatistics PhD student Dustin Long has been selected as a 2010 recipient of the prestigious Tanner Teaching Assistants Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Long will be presented with his award at a banquet to be held at the Carolina Club on April 15, 2010. congratulations to Dustin for this wonderful and deserving honor!  

Public health students recognized for work benefiting North Carolina

April 13, 2010 Gillings School of Global Public Health students earned four of 16 Impact Awards, presented by UNC’s Graduate School. The awards were presented at the graduate student recognition ceremony held April 8 at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. Sponsored by the Graduate School’s Graduate Education Advancement Board, the Impact Awards recognize graduate... Read more »

Zhu awarded $1.3 million from National Institute of Mental Health

Hongth Zhu, PhD, Associate Professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Dr. Hongtu Zhu Biostatistics, has been awarded an R01 grant worth over $1.3 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop statistical methods for detecting morphological differences of cortical and subcortical structures across time between schizophrenia and... Read more »

Geiger chosen to present School’s commencement address

  March 19, 2010 Dr. H. Jack Geiger The man credited with founding the nation’s first rural community health center – and inspiring a generation of public health leaders – will address the 2010 graduates of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.   Human rights activist, physician and epidemiologist H. Jack Geiger will... Read more »

New UNC Summer Public Health Fellowship Program seeks diverse applicants

February 08, 2010 The Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now taking applications for its exciting new program, the UNC Summer Public Health Fellowship Program (SPHF). Designed to increase the likelihood that more disadvantaged and minority students with academic potential pursue careers in public health,... Read more »

SECC charitable donations exceed expectations

January 25, 2010 Faculty and staff members at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have contributed $68,366 to the 2009 State Employees’ Combined Campaign, says Cathy Padgett, career services coordinator for the Department of Health Policy and Management and this year’s SECC campaign chair at the School.   The public health school’s total was... Read more »