Above (left to right): UNC Human Bio Lab graduate students Isa, Achsah, Kelly, Hannah, Brittany, Katie, Gioia, and Kari at the HBA poster session. The UNC Human Biology Lab had a great time at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Human …
UNC Human Biology Lab Presented at the HBA/AAPA Annual Meetings Last Week! Read More »
Gioia received Honorable Mention on her National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program application this year. She also received the Harriet J. Kupferer Graduate Exploratory Summer Research Award to fund her pilot research project in Ecuador this summer. Congrats, Gioia!
This semester, Isa defended her master’s thesis entitled, “Migration and health outcomes in Purepecha sending communities.” This work is based on Isa’s research in the summer of 2015. Hannah also defended her master’s thesis entitled, “Social and economic change and …
Congratulations to Isa and Hannah on their Master’s Defenses! Read More »
Dr. Crystal Patil will be giving a talk on Monday, November 9th at 3:35 in Alumni Hall Room 207. Join us!
This fall we welcomed two new PhD students, Gioia Skeltis and Kari Riggle.
Katie Barrett received a pilot grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences to study the metabolic hormones leptin, ghrelin, and adiponectin in African American infants in North Carolina. She will be looking at how these hormones vary among …
Isa Godinez was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her doctoral training and research on metabolic risk and nutrition transition in Mexico. Brittany Chamberlain was awarded the UNC Graduate School’s Summer Research Fellowship and Off Campus …
Congratulations to Isa and Brittany for receiving Dissertation Grants! Well Done! Read More »
Brittany just presented a poster at the Annual Meeting for the Human Biology Association on her Master’s Thesis and continued research entitled “Understanding differences between infant feeding knowledge and behaviors among low-income African American mothers.” Her research examined qualitative and quantitative …
Representing UNC at the Human Biology Association’s Conference! Read More »
Achsah, Hannah, and Isa were awarded new Predoctoral Traineeships at the Carolina Population Center at UNC for 2015-2016. The CPC trainee program brings together exceptional students and faculty from across campus focusing on population-related research. Students from the Human Biology …
We congratulate Achsah Dorsey for receiving two Outstanding Research for A Master’s Award from the University of Alabama and their Arts and Sciences Program. Her MA thesis is entitled Selected Successors: An Investigation of Sex-Differentiated Parental Care and Child Health …
