Congratulations to Amy R. Johnson, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Liza Makowski, for being chosen to receive a Keystone Symposia Scholarship to attend the Jan. 2013 meeting ‘Metabolic Control of Inflammation and Immunity’ in Colorado.
Congratulations to Amy R. Johnson, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Liza Makowski for winning the postdoc chalk talk competition focusing on her project “The Role of Substrate Metabolism and Macrophage Activation in Obesity” in September at the South East Lipid Research Conference. Dr. Johnson also presented a poster and an invited lecture… Read More
Jillian Hamilton received the North Carolina Dietetic Association’s Outstanding Dietetics Student Award for 2012. She was honored at the NCDA Awards & Recognition Lunch at the NCDA Annual Meeting on April 15th, 2012. Congratulations, Jillian!
Yuanyuan Qin, doctoral candidate, is one of 12 finalists selected for the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Graduate Student Research Awards competition at the 2012 Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego April 2012. She will participate in an oral competition for a chance to win a cash prize and will present a poster. She has… Read More
Gina Sacks, BSPH candidate, was selected by the Dept of Nutrition to receive the Joseph Edozien Outstanding Undergraduate Award. Congratulations Gina!
Makowski’s Cafeteria Diet paper was the #5 out of top 10 news stories read in the Gillings School of Global Public Health News. It was the #1 read scientific article. Go lab! http://www.sph.unc.edu/schoolwide_news/top_10_in_2011_the_years_most_read_news_stories_21345_8289.html
