

Student Awards
The Department of Health Behavior celebrate the work of nine Master’s Capstone Teams and presented student awards on April 24, 2019, in the Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium.

2019 Health Behavior Student Awardees and Presenters
Harriet Hylton Barr Memorial Scholarship
Awardee: Kelsey Dickman
Presenter: Joanna Ramirez
Lucy S. Morgan Fellowship
Awardees: Rakiah Anderson, Emily Dake and Simone Frank
Presenters: Julianna de Groot, Samantha Luu and Nastacia Pereira
Kathryn J. Kerr Memorial Scholarship
Awardee: Adams Sibley
Presenter: Leah Taraskiewicz
Dorothy Fay Dunn Scholarship
Awardee: Kevin Smith
Presenter: Chris Akiba
Godfrey M. & Lore Hochbaum Endowment Fund
Awardee: Kevin Smith
Presenter: Presented by Chris Akiba
Lansky Family Scholarship
Awardee: Courtney Turner
Presenter: Maija Leff
Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
Inductees: Kelsey Dickman, Jeffrey Gilbert, Becky Payne, Rebeccah Sokol, Chelsea Swanson
Presenter: Suzanne Maman, PhD, vice chair academic affairs and professor of health behavior
Delta Omega Theta Chapter Service Award
Awardee: Juliana de Groot
Presenter: Suzanne Maman
Additional Recognitions
Amanda Kong: Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Sarah Treves-Kagan: Injury and Violence Prevention Fellowship
Anna Leonard: Presidential Management Fellowship
Supriya Sadagopan: PLAS Chinese-Foreign Language and Area Studies Full Scholarship for Chinese Language Acquisition
Karla Jimenez-Magdaleno: Excellence in Diversity Fellowship and 2019, CSAS and Campus Y Social Justice Photography Competition, Carolina Global Photography Award – Learning Moment Thematic Spotlight
Andrew Seidenberg: National Research Service Award
Becky Payne: Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Jess Bousquette: Injury and Violence Prevention Fellowship
Katelyn Jones: FHI 360-UNC Public Health Fellowship
Ida Griesemer: T32 Predoctoral Fellowship in Health Services Research
Willa Dong: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Casey Watters: Global Practice Award
Dirk Davis: Summer Research Fellowship and Mellon Dissertation Award
Adams Sibley: Master’s Merit Assistantship
Melissa Speener: Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Portugese
Caroline Efird, Dane Emmerling, Alexander Hurley, Virginia Savage Frank Porter Graham Honor Society Dirk Davis Kevin Smith: The Maizie J. Levenson Endowment Fund
Yesenia Merino: Frank Porter Graham Honor Society