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‘Food is the new tobacco’ column discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s book ‘The World is Fat’
August 10, 2009Aug 10, 2009 An editorial column in The Garner-News that says food is the new tobacco discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin‘s new book, “The World is Fat,” linking the addiction to tobacco to the addiction to fatty foods as they … Read more
CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry cited in MSNBC article
August 10, 2009Aug 10, 2009 CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry and his 1970 study on birth rates after one-night events were recently cited in a MSNBC article. The article discusses the myth of a baby boom after President … Read more
TIME magazine features CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen in “Must Read” article
June 29, 2009Jun 29, 2009 CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen and her study on increased weight gain in couples who live together will be featured in TIME magazine’s July 6th edition and is on the front page of Time.com as a “Must Read” … Read more
Research on weight gain in couples by CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen mentioned on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
June 22, 2009Jun 22, 2009 CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen, Ph. D., an associate professor of nutrition at UNC, and her research on increased weight gain in couples who live together were featured on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, a weekly comedy … Read more
Pregnancy guidelines co-author Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a CPC Fellow, mentioned in Associated Press article
June 16, 2009Jun 16, 2009 An article recently published by the Associated Press reports new pregnancy guidelines from the Institute of Medicine for how much weight women should gain during their pregnancy. CPC Fellow Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, an associate professor of … Read more
CPC Fellow Halpern receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
May 27, 2009May 27, 2009 CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health Carolyn Halpern was awarded the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring from the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Dean … Read more
CPC Fellow Siddiqi’s research on Canadian health care referenced in the news
May 20, 2009May 20, 2009 The research of Arjumand Siddiqi, CPC Fellow and assistant professor of health behavior and health education, was recently referenced in a news story about Canadian health care. The story says: “…Siddiqi and Hertzman write (and technology and … Read more
CPC Fellow Guang Guo appointed Odum Distinguished Term Professor
May 20, 2009May 20, 2009 On the recommendation of the chaired professors in the department, Guang Guo has been approved by the College of Arts and Sciences as the Odum Distinguished Term Professor in the Department of Sociology, effective July 1, 2009. … Read more
CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin guest on WUNC’s The State of Things
April 30, 2009Apr 30, 2009 From the WUNC website: Fifty years ago there were 100 million overweight people in the world. That sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? Well, it does until you learn that number has skyrocketed to 1.6 billion. Barry … Read more
CPC Fellow Popkin named Tar Heel of the Week by News & Observer
April 20, 2009Apr 20, 2009 CPC Fellow and Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition Barry Popkin was named Tar Heel of the Week by the News & Observer for the week beginning March 29, 2009. An excerpt from the news … Read more