Category: Featured News
2nd Annual Student Research Symposium: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET
The 2nd Annual UNC NORC Student Research Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET. Four prizes of $250 each will be awarded in the following categories: best undergraduate student poster, best … Read more
NORC Presents 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium on July 21-22, 2022
This year’s theme of Diet and Chronic Unresolved Inflammation: Implications for Obesity-Associated Complications will focus on interdisciplinary and translational approaches in the context of diet and nutrition to effectively prevent and treat chronic inflammation associated with obesity and its associated … Read more
NORC Directors to Lead 2 Centers for $170M NIH Nutrition for Precision Health Consortium
UNC NORC directors at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health will direct both a $13 million NPH Clinical Center (one of six across the United States) and a $19 million Metabolomics and Clinical Assay Center.
P&F Awardee Rachel Goode Awarded Federal Grant for Online Intervention to Treat Binge Eating
Dr. Goode, whose research interests focus on addressing racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity and eating disorders, was recently awarded a nearly $887,000 federal grant to develop a culturally relevant intervention to treat binge eating and obesity. The five-year … Read more
Shaikh Named Co-Director of UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Raz Shaikh, PhD, has been named co-director of the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC). Shaikh is an associate professor and associate chair for research in the Department of Nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and … Read more
NORC Supports Inaugural Symposium to Improve Research on Causes of Obesity
At this symposium, participating researchers sought to bridge the gap between human and mouse studies that are commonly used to model the diversity of factors that can lead to the development of obesity. Their findings are now available in an … Read more
Hursting Named Director of UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Dr. Stephen Hursting has been named the next director of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis, N.C.