April 7, 2014 Protein changes associated with prenatal exposure to arsenic may hold the key to understanding the workings of adult-onset diseases tied to arsenic in the environment, a study... Read more »
April 7, 2014 Educating parents and child-care providers about nutrition and physical activity can reap benefits for obese preschoolers, according to a study conducted by a research team that included... Read more »
April 2, 2014 Bill Gentry, MPA, director of certificate programs in health policy and management at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, received the Ned Brooks Award for Public... Read more »
April 2, 2014 The Doctor of Medicine-Master of Public Health (MD-MPH) program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was selected by the Association for Prevention Teaching and... Read more »
April 3, 2014 Environmental sciences and engineering doctoral candidate Anne Galyean is forging new paths in nanochemistry. She is also a world-class downhill mountain biker. Maybe it’s genetic. Maybe it... Read more »
April 2, 2014 Gloria Thompson, a housekeeper at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, is one of six winners of the 2014 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award, one... Read more »
April 1, 2014 SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth, a multi-center, multi-ethnic study of childhood diabetes, is the largest surveillance effort of diabetes among youth under the age of 20 conducted... Read more »
March 31, 2014 Ovarian cancer tumors in obese mice grew to nearly three times the size of tumors in non-obese mice, researchers discovered in a recent study. Their findings, published... Read more »
March 28, 2014 A new study finds that women 65 and older who are treated for breast cancer initially experience declines in physical and mental health, compared to similar women... Read more »
March 28, 2014 Six students in the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics received awards for their research at the International Biometric Society’s Eastern North American Region... Read more »
