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Ottavia Zattra is the winner of the  Joseph Edozien Outstanding Undergraduate Award and received the Delta Omega Undergraduate Recognition. Congratulations!

Chris Kartawira, winner of Region 3b NC Science and Engineering Fair at NCSSM and will go to state competition NC Science and Engineering Fair at Meredith College for a poster entitled “Characterizing the Phenotype of Lean and Obese Bone Marrow-Derived Adipose Tissue Macrophages”

Luma Essaid, a BSPH nutrition major in the Makowski Lab, won a poster award at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research on April 15 for her poster, “Role of a Hepacyte Growth Facor on Obesity-Mediated Basal-like Breast Cancer,”

Alex Freemerman, research associate and Makowski lab manager for 5 years won an award for exceptional service in the Nutrition department- the highest award offered! Congrats to Alex! Maili Lim and Luma Essaid, our BSPH undergrads will graduate with highest honors for their excellent work! Congrats to Luma and Maili! Alyssa Cozzo, first year doctoral student… Read More

Makowski Lab doctoral candidate Alyssa Cozzo was selected by the Department of Nutrition as the recipient of the Ethel J. Coleman Endowed Scholarship in Nutritional Biochemistry for 2014-2015.  She was chosen by the nutritional biochemistry division for her strong academic ability and potential to contribute to the field of nutritional biochemistry. Congratulations Alyssa!

The UNC Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP) is pleased to announce the official launch of myBCrisk.org. The site features videos of young black survivors, a tool for assessing personal risk factors, and informational resources. Although our target audience is African American women, women of all backgrounds can use this site to learn… Read More

Liza Makowski, assistant professor of Nutrition, published “Weight loss reversed obesity-induced HGF/c-Met pathway and basal-like breast cancer progression” in Frontiers in Oncology as part of the research topic focusing on “Obesity: An important driving force behind inflammation, altered immunity and cellular metabolism.” Makowski lab co-authors include lead author Dr. Sneha Sundaram, Trinh L Le, Luma… Read More

Luma Essaid, a BSPH student in the Makowski Lab, who won a Gold Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for $4,000 to fund summer studies. Congrats, Luma!

Congratulations to Liza Makowski who will be inducted into the Gillings School of Global Public Health chapter of Delta Omega, the national public health honorary society

Congratulations to Luma Essaid, BSPH ’15, who has been awarded the Tom and Elizabeth Long Research Award for 2014-2015 from Honors Carolina at UNC-CH.