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Impact Awards: Two trainees are recognized for their research accomplishments
January 23, 2023The UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School’s Impact Awards are designed to recognize the significance of graduate student research and their contributions to North Carolina in areas of education and economic, physical, social or cultural well-being. This year, two of the eleven recipients are Trainees at the Carolina Population Center. The eleven students and recent alumni honored…
Trainee Spotlight: Meng-Jung Lin
July 3, 2020Meng-Jung Lin is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a Predoctoral Trainee at the Carolina Population Center. CPC intern Ryan Holmes conducted this interview in the spring of 2020. Q: Tell me about yourself—how did you land at CPC? Lin: I am a sociology PhD student, and my research interests are social…
Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen: Minor sex trafficking of girls with disabilities
June 23, 2020Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen is interested in topics of gender-based violence abroad and within the United States and is particularly focused on violence that impacts adolescents and children. Her current work focuses on domestic minor sex trafficking and adolescent vulnerabilities in populations across the U.S. as well as middle and high school students in North Carolina. Franchino-Olsen…
Trainee Spotlight: Max Reason
June 3, 2020Max Reason is a statistician at the United States Department of Agriculture. He is a former trainee at the Carolina Population Center and recently received his PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This interview was conducted by CPC intern Ryan Holmes shortly before Max graduated earlier this year. Q: …
Trainee Spotlight: Rachel Wilbur
May 3, 2020Rachel Wilbur is a fourth year doctoral candidate in Human Biology and Predoctoral Trainee in the Biosocial Program at CPC. She is interested in the impact of historical trauma and social determinants on the health of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native peoples. Her dissertation research seeks to elucidate and document the pathways through which…
Trainee Spotlight: Khristopher Mark Nicholas
November 1, 2019Name: Khristopher Mark Nicholas Current title: CPC Trainee; 3rd year PhD student, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health Years affiliated with CPC: 2018 - present [caption id="attachment_15470" align="alignright" width="225"] Khristopher Mark Nicholas[/caption] What projects are you currently working on? My primary research centers on characterizing food environments in the Galapagos islands of…