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CPC News and Announcements
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CPC Fellow Walsh receives teaching award
CPC Fellow and Professor of Geography Stephen J. Walsh received a Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Congratulations Steve!
Read about his work with students and an excerpt from the nomination at
http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/08may07/teaching-insert-lo-res.pdf
(scroll to page 3 of the PDF) or at
http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/08may07/file.5.html (scroll to his name)....
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s work with Beverage Guidance Panel in news
The Orlando Sentinel reported on CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s work with the Beverage Guidance Panel, a group of nutrition experts who developed a beverage pyramid similar to the food pyramid developed by the USDA. (Barish-Wreden, Maxine, and Kay Judge. 2008. Don't take that sip! The Beverage Council has a pyramid that suggests where you should put your straw. In Orlando Sentinel. Orlando, Fl.) To read the entire article, click here: orlandosentinel.com/features/food/orl-whattodrink08apr29,0,2713735...
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PAA Poster Blue Ribbon Winners
Congratulations to all 2008 PAA presenters. Five CPC posters
were awarded blue ribbons. Caryl
Feldacker, Veronica Escamilla, and Michael Emch:
Protecting Populations: Using Environmental Variables to
Predict Cholera in Bangladesh
and Vietnam;
Carolyn Tucker Halpern and Abigail
Haydon:
Patterns of Risk Behavior Change From Adolescence to Emerging
Adulthood and Implications for STIs;
Hedwig Lee:
Multiple Levels of Social Disadvantage and its L...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on obesity in Mexico in the news
In
the March 24 issue of the Charlotte Observer, CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses
obesity trends in Mexico.
“Fueled
by the rising popularity of soft drinks and fast-food restaurants, Mexico has
become the second fattest nation in the world. Mexican health officials say it
could surpass the U.S.
as the most obese country within 10 years if trends continue. ... In 1989,
fewer than 10 percent of Mexican adults were overweight. No one in the country
even talked about obesity back...
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CPC Fellow Bentley Featured in Science Article about Careers in Global Public Health
"Pointing to her interdisciplinary training in medical anthropology,
Margaret “Peggy” Bentley, associate dean of global health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health
in Chapel Hill, encourages science undergraduates considering a career
in the field to think broadly and take courses in the social sciences
and humanities. If you're going to work on problems that affect other
countries, you need to understand other cultures, she says."
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag....
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CPC Fellow Jane Brown Receives Faculty Mentoring Award
Dr. Jane Brown, CPC Fellow and the James L. Knight Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has received the Faculty Mentoring Award from the Carolina Women's Leadership Council. To read more, please click here:http://gazette.unc.edu/file.4.html ...
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