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CPC Fellow Adair awarded funding from NIH’s Fogarty International Center to study stress and cardiovascular disease risk
October 9, 2008Oct 9, 2008 Linda S. Adair, CPC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was awarded funding for the project "Relating Multiple Dimensions of Stress to CVD Risk in Filipino Adults." The project will examine the role of psychosocial, environmental and behavioral factors that contribute…
CPC Fellow Siega-Riz awarded funds to study children’s risks of becoming overweight during preschool years
October 9, 2008Oct 9, 2008 Anna Maria Siega-Riz, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the study "Intra-uterine and Early Childhood Factors Related to Weight Status at Age 3." The study will examine the influences of prenatal and early childhood factors on children's risk…
Burke County, N.C. added to landmark National Children’s Study: UNC directs the study in N.C.
October 3, 2008Oct 3, 2008 News ReleaseFriday, October 3, 2008CHAPEL HILL - Burke County, N.C. will be added to the National Children's Study, a multi-million dollar, decades-long project which focuses on the health and well-being of children throughout the United States. Burke County is one of 105 counties in the United States selected to participate in the…
Cumberland County, N.C. chosen to be part of National Children’s Study: UNC directs the study in N.C.
October 3, 2008Oct 3, 2008 News Release Friday, October 3, 2008CHAPEL HILL - Cumberland County, N.C. has been selected to be part of the National Children's Study, a multi-million dollar, decades-long project which focuses on the health and well-being of children throughout the United States. The National Children's Study researches the effects of social, behavioral, biological, community,…
UNC and N.C. roles expanded in landmark children’s health and development study
October 3, 2008Oct 3, 2008 UNC News Release Available at uncnews.unc.edu Friday, October 03, 2008 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has added three more areas of North Carolina and is expanding the role played by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a long-term, wide-ranging study of the nation's children. The NIH has announced…
Perreira, CPC Fellow, receives funding to study dietary patterns and obesity risk among Latino infants and toddlers in NC
September 30, 2008Sep 30, 2008 Krista M. Perreira, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), has received funding for the study "Dietary Patterns and Obesity Risk among Latino Infants and Toddlers in North Carolina." The study will examine the dietary patterns and practices of new immigrant…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin featured in Voice of America news item on obesity
September 25, 2008Sep 25, 2008 CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses obesity trends and solutions in this Voice of America piece. "'In the last 50 to 60 years, in the post world war era, in both the U.S. and the other high-income countries, we've had a slow shift in the way we live so we've become more sedentary,…
CPC Fellow Adair receives funding from NIH to study origins of adult disease risk factors
September 23, 2008Sep 23, 2008 Linda S. Adair, CPC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), was awarded funding for the project "Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors." Using data from the Cebu (Philippines) Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, this study will use…
CPC Fellow Mouw awarded NSF funding to study immigration and the dynamics of labor market adjustment
September 23, 2008Sep 23, 2008 Ted Mouw, CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received funding from the National Science Foundation to begin work on the study "Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment." Mouw's study will examine how the United States labor market adjusts to an…
Time Magazine quotes CPC Fellow Jane Brown in report on adolescent girls’ sexuality
September 15, 2008Sep 15, 2008 "Unless you're an adolescent male, you have already asked yourself this question, perhaps in the past few days: Is there something wrong with teen girls? ...According to Jane Brown, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 'Twelve-to-14-year-old girls who start puberty earlier are more interested in sexual…