Gillings community members honored with 2022 awards for mentorship, teaching, research and service
April 18, 2022 Four members of the Gillings School community were selected to receive the School’s most prestigious awards: Drs. Andrew Olshan (Larsh Award), Daniel Westreich (McGavran Award), Clare Barrington (Greenberg Award) and Dilshad Jaff (Barr Award).
Gillings School honors 3 graduate students with inaugural teaching assistant awards
April 18, 2022 Dane Emmerling, Lee Doyle and Hanna Huffstetler are the inaugural winners of the Gillings School Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Awards.
Gillings School honors 6 faculty members for teaching innovation
April 18, 2022 Students at the Gillings School have selected six faculty members to honor for teaching innovation in the classroom, including Jennifer Medearis Costello and Drs. Jamie Crandell, Brian Wells Pence, Julia Rager, Patsy Polston, and Katie Meyer.
Strauss, Emmerling among Carolina community members recognized at 23rd annual Public Service Awards
April 14, 2022 Dr. Ronald Strauss and doctoral student Dane Emmerling are among ten Carolina faculty, staff, students and organizations recognized at the 23rd annual Public Service Awards on April 12 for outstanding contributions to the campus and broader communities.
Zhao receives The Graduate School Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
April 12, 2022 Dr. Bingxin Zhao, a doctoral graduate from the Gillings School's Department of Biostatistics, is one of four recipients of The Graduate School's 2022 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Gillings alum named founding dean of new College of Global Population Health
April 4, 2022 Dr. David Steeb was named dean of a school of public health in March 2022: the new College of Global Population Health, which the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri established to advance its vision for health education and research with a global focus.
Olshan to serve as Gillings School interim associate dean for research
March 30, 2022 Dr. Andrew Olshan has been named the interim associate dean for research at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Three Gillings students named 2022 Community Engagement Fellows
March 29, 2022 The Community Engagement Fellowship program at UNC-Chapel Hill awards a maximum of eight fellowships of up to $2,500 each year for engaged scholarship projects that are responsive to community priorities and have an academic connection. This year, three students of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health were chosen as fellows.
UNC Gillings remains No. 1 public school of public health in US
March 29, 2022 Once again, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health was ranked by peer leaders as the number one public school of public health in the United States — and tied for number two overall. The rankings were published on March 29, 2022, by U.S. News and World Report.
Impact Awards: 3 Gillings students lead research and discovery in NC
February 1, 2022 The UNC Graduate School has named 11 students as recipients of its 2022 Impact Awards, which celebrate research that contributes to the well-being of North Carolina communities and citizens. Three of the awardees are graduate students in the Gillings School.