National Public Health Week: Building Bridges to Better Health

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 of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. APHA creates new NPHW materials each year that can be used during... Read more »

From Awareness to Action: Confronting Weight Stigma to Promote Public Health

The Department of Nutrition is excited to share the inaugural Weight Stigma Awareness Series! Nutrition students and faculty curated this two-part event to increase awareness of weight stigma and lay the foundation for addressing it at the individual, research and practice levels. Join us as we learn about weight stigma in public health research and... Read more »

Global Food Systems and Sustainable Nutrition in the 21st Century

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:00am to 5:30pm EST This event will be held virtually. All are welcome. The NORCH is pleased to announce the topic for this year’s symposium: Global Food Systems and Sustainable Nutrition in the 21st Century. The lineup of speakers includes experts in the fields of public health, global food systems, food... Read more »

Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?

Dept of Nutrition Seminar: "Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?" Dr. Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine, will give a presentation titled “Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?” Registration is required at https://go.unc.edu/nutrseminars

Nutrition for a Healthy Brain

Celebrate Healthy Aging month with Gillings Culture of Health at a lunch and learn on Nutrition for a Healthy Brain! Learn about eating to support a healthy brain (and gut brain), decrease inflammation and improve mood and cognition. Take home some simple strategies for healthy aging!  Learn more and register. Thursday, September 16, 12:30-1:15pm

Food Insecurity and its Impact on Child Growth and Nutrition

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.

Undergraduate Research with the Nutrition Research Institute

Dr. Susan Sumner from the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), professors from her laboratory team, and undergraduate researchers from her lab will share the unique opportunities available for undergraduate students at the NRI. Learn more and view the session. This event is part of University Research Week.

Virtual Cook Along with Dr. Alice Ammerman

The Department of Nutrition invites you to join Professor Alice Ammerman, DrPH, ’90, MPH ’82, as she accepts the Nutrition Distinguished Alumni Award with a virtual cook along and research update on Thursday, Nov. 11. She will be demonstrating a recipe from her Med-South diet: a dietary pattern designed and rigorously tested by Ammerman and... Read more »

Nutrition 75th Anniversary Speaker Series: Dr. Mercedes Carnethon

Please join the Department of Nutrition for a lecture with Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, ('00 epidemiology), vice-chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Mary Harris Thompson Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) at Northwestern University. Dr. Carnethon’s research focuses on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, lung health and... Read more »

Dietary n3-PUFAs Modulate the Pulmonary Response to Environmental Exposures

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 »

NORC Student Research Competition

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 »