Oct 26, 2006 Invasive plants and animals once foreign to the famous archipelago are eroding fragile landscapes and threatening species that have been aiding scientific discovery since Charles Darwin’s first voyage in 1835. The Ecuadorian government knows this, as do … Read more

Oct 26, 2006 When you are trying to lose weight, it’s easy to change the beverages you drink, says Barry Popkin.  “It doesn’t matter if you drink bottled water or tap water: Just drink more water. It’s a powerful way … Read more

Oct 25, 2006 Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of nutrition at North Carolina, analyzed data on 5,000 young adults over 15 years. She found that a slightly overweight woman who walked two extra hours each week over 15 years gained … Read more

Oct 11, 2006 Kathleen Mullan Harris, a sociology professor at UNC Chapel Hill, said changes in social structures over the years have allowed dads to take on new roles. They’re now able to develop into more available, emotional and compassionate … Read more

Oct 6, 2006 Dr. Kuo-Ping Li, Physicist and CPC Postdoctoral Scholar, will present Local Air Quality and Lung Cancer Mortality Rates: A Case of Spatial Smoothing on Friday, October 13 in Room 405 CPC East.  Location information is available at … Read more

Oct 4, 2006 University of North Carolina media researcher Dr. Jane Brown notes that too many children are left in front of the screen – unsupervised, “Talk about it as parents today need to be thinking about their children’s media … Read more

Sep 22, 2006 Immigrant children do as well or better than their same-race, American-born counterparts, according to a U.S. study… “The findings also run counter to expectations based upon immigrant children’s over-representation in high-risk background categories and general public perceptions … Read more

Sep 7, 2006 A substantial percentage of young U.S. adults say they suffered some form of neglect or abuse as children, researchers reported Tuesday…. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggest that child maltreatment — in the form of … Read more

Sep 5, 2006 “It’s not too late to make an impact,” said Barry Popkin, director of the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Whether it’s better to do earlier or later, we can’t answer.” … Read more

Aug 31, 2006 A national report Tuesday fingered North Carolina as one of 31 states where residents are getting rounder — the same day state officials launched an ambitious but unfunded new strategy to turn the tide…. Barry Popkin, a … Read more