Precision, Personalized, and Global Nutrition: Why, What, and How? The annual Department of Nutrition and UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center seminar series will focus on a variety of topics, including: The mechanisms by which coagulation factors control aspects of diet-induced obesity Implicit biases and what can we do to improve diversity and inclusion in the... Read more »
Dr. K. Sean Kimbro, Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University, will give a presentation titled "Novel Interleukins Contribute to Lipid and Glucose Dysregulation in African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.” Contact john.easterbrook@unc.edu with questions. Registration required.
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program presents a virtual symposium featuring keynote speaker and P&F awardee Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen and presentations from P&F award winners Dr. Kyle S. Burger, Dr. Rachel W. Goode, Dr. Abbie Smith-Ryan and Dr. Maya Styner. Speakers will discuss their current research, their experiences as a... Read more »
During the first full week of April each year, APHA brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions... Read more »
Dr. Colin Orr, assistant professor of general pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, will give a presentation titled “Food Insecurity and its Impact on Child Growth and Nutrition.” Registration is required.
Dr. Linda M. Collins, Professor of Global Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University, will give a seminar titled “It’s About More Than Effectiveness: Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions.” Registration is required.
As part of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center's Enrichment Program, Dr. Lamis Jomaa, associate professor of nutrition and food sciences at American University of Beirut, will give a seminar titled "Food and Nutrition Security in the Era of Sustainability: Evidence From the MENA Region.” Learn more and register.
Kymberly Gowdy, MS, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, will present “Dietary n3-PUFAs Modulate the Pulmonary Response to Environmental Exposures” Co-sponsored by the UNC NORC and the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Friday, Feb. 25 @ 2 p.m.... Read more »
Please join NC TraCS for a CTSA Grand Rounds seminar, "The impact of sleeping and waking behaviors on maternal health during pregnancy," with Marquis Hawkins, PhD. He will discuss his... Read more »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center invites submission of abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students currently working in the lab or research group of a current UNC NORC member. Four prizes will be awarded. The best undergraduate student poster will receive a $250 prize, and the best undergraduate student oral presentation will receive a $250... Read more »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program will hold an in-person symposium on Monday, April 18 from 1 – 3 p.m. in the Blue Cross... Read more »
Designed for graduate students, health professionals and nutrition scientists from academia, agencies, and industry This course delivers fundamental NGx concepts and addresses barriers that impede translation of research results from... Read more »
You are invited to the Third Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium, to be held in person on July 21-22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registration and... Read more »
You are invited to the Third Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium, to be held in person on July 21-22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registration and... Read more »
Virtual Seminar with Carla Prado, PhD, “Body Composition in Research and Clinical Settings: From Assessment to Targeted Nutrition Interventions” Professor / Campus Alberta Innovates Program (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food... Read more »
