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CPC Fellow Gordon-Larsen elected to lead The Obesity Society
September 25, 2013Sep 25, 2013 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen was recently elected vice president of The Obesity Society. UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted an announcement on its website about the honor. Congratulations, Penny! Excerpt: “Penny … Read more
CPC Fellow Popkin Advocates for Protection from Big Food, Big Soda lobbying with the launch of the Bellagio Declaration
September 23, 2013Sep 23, 2013 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Barry Popkin is featured in an article by UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health describing his role in the launch of the Bellagio Declaration last week. Below is an excerpt. Read … Read more
Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication honors CPC Emerita Fellow Brown with Distinguished Educator award
August 7, 2013Aug 7, 2013 Jane D. Brown was selected to receive the Distinguished Educator award from the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. This award is the division’s highest teaching honor. Brown … Read more
MEASURE Evaluation to Lead South Africa Associate Award
June 29, 2013Jun 29, 2013 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA – MEASURE Evaluation has won an Associate Award from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s South Africa Mission – with a ceiling of about $15 million over 5 years. MEASURE Evaluation will … Read more
CPC Fellow Siega-Riz appointed to 2015 US Dietary Guidelines advisory committee
June 13, 2013Jun 13, 2013 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health recently announced that Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow, was appointed to a prestigious federal advisory committee on dietary guidelines. “Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD, RD, professor of … Read more
CPC Faculty Fellow Paul Voss honored with the Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America
April 19, 2013Paul R. Voss received the prestigious Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America on April 12th at its Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Robert J. Lapham Award “recognizes members of PAA who contributed to the … Read more
Time.com features research by CPC Fellows Thompson, Adair, and Bentley: Fussy infants spend more time in front of the TV
January 7, 2013Jan 7, 2013 A recent study examined the amount of time infants were exposed to television in the first 18 months of life and identified some specific predictors that can decrease or increase TV exposure. The research was conducted by … Read more
Meet the recently elected Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows: S. Philip Morgan, Lauren Persha, Liana Richardson, Kavita Singh, and Colin West
January 2, 2013The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected five UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program. The Fellows are CPC’s permanent and vital core, and the center devotes its resources to facilitating their research. Currently, there are 63 Fellows … Read more
UNC Epidemiology Professor Jim Thomas to be Director of UNC’s largest project
January 2, 2013Jan 2, 2013 James C. “Jim” Thomas, Ph.D., has been appointed the new Director of MEASURE Evaluation. In 2008, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded up to $181 million for the 6-year Project, which remains the largest … Read more
The Economist’s special report on obesity cites research by CPC Fellow Popkin
December 17, 2012Dec 17, 2012 The December 15th issue of The Economist features a special report on obesity. The report includes ten articles and two of the articles reference work by Carolina Population Center Fellow Barry Popkin. The big picture: The world … Read more