Aug 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

Aug 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

Jun 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

Jun 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

Jun 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

May 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

May 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

May 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

Apr 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

Apr 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