April 12, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — Three recent faculty arrivals in the genetics department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine are studying how the interaction of multiple genes is involved in common and complex human diseases.Last year saw the arrival from Virginia Commonwealth University of Dr. Patrick Sullivan, professor... Read more »
April 12, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health is devoting its 29th Annual Public Health Nutrition Update on Thursday (April 15) to “Diet and Cardiovascular Diseases.”The one-day conference, to be held at UNC’s William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, will feature a series... Read more »
April 03, 2004 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on numerous lists of newly ranked programs and specialty areas produced by U.S. News and World Report magazine for its 2005 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Following is a summary of newly ranked UNC programs and specialty areas that the magazine plans... Read more »
March 31, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina schools soon will have new tools for better fighting the childhood overweight epidemic, thanks to a new collaboration of N.C. Prevention Partners and GlaxoSmithKline.At Apex Elementary School this morning (March 30), representatives of GlaxoSmithKline and N.C. Prevention Partners announced their new partnership -“Healthy Schools, Healthy Weight” –... Read more »
March 29, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — Dr. Richard Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, will be the keynote speaker for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health’s Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture, scheduled for April 8. Feachem’s lecture, titled “Fighting the Great... Read more »
March 26, 2004 Graeme Simpson, the co-founder and executive director of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, and a prominent South African human rights activist, will deliver the Godfrey M. Hochbaum Distinguished Lecture this Monday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health. The Cecil G. Sheps... Read more »
March 25, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — Recognized leadership in life-long learning, student service, and practice research were the keys to the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill being awarded a $100,000 grant by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH). The one-year grant will result in three... Read more »
March 25, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — By coupling extensive U.S. Department of Agriculture food consumption data and their own analyses with previous research, nutrition experts have concluded that high-fructose sweeteners made from corn are partially responsible for the growing national obesity epidemic.Introduction of the sweeteners, which are cheaper to produce and use in food manufacturing... Read more »
March 25, 2004 The recent fifth annual Women’s Health Research Day, sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for Women’s Health Research, marked the first time researchers received awards for their presentations at this event.Following are the awards and recipients:7 The McMahon Young Investigator Award went to Dr. Laura Gaydos, a... Read more »
March 21, 2004 CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the first recipient of a new grant given to establish a physician subspecialty training program in allergy and immunology.The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology selected UNC’s allergy and immunology program, from a nationwide pool of applicants, as this... Read more »
