Category: News
New Faculty 2013
The Department of Allied Health Sciences welcomed nine new faculty members for the fall of 2013.

Rák Receives Grant for Statewide Needs Assessment of Services for Visually Impaired
Dr. Enikõ Rák, Assistant Professor, has received a $33,324 grant from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Services for the Blind (DSB), to support a “Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment,” to identify and describe the rehabilitation needs of individuals with blindness, deaf-blindness, and other visual disabilities.

Research in the DAHS: Looking Back – and Forward
As I sit down to write this, and look back over 13 years of research in the DAHS, two old advertising tag-lines keep popping into my head: “You’ve come a long way, Baby!” and “You made it the old fashioned way, you earned it!”

Congratulations to Our PhD Program Graduates
(July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013)
New Interdisciplinary Autism Training Grant will Help Produce Leaders in Research and Outreach
A new interdisciplinary training grant to help doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows at develop leadership competencies related to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) has received $1,246,834 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
NC TraCS Institute $5K-50K Pilot Grant Program
The NC TraCS Institute Pilot Grant Program has announced Tuesday, October 22, 2013 as the next submission deadline date for $5k-50k pilot grant proposals. TraCS is especially interested in, and will extend priority to, proposals with a focus on one of three areas: Transformative Technologies investigators using genomic, proteomic or metabolomics platforms to accelerate a translat … Read more
Orientation for New Clinical Research Personnel
This four-part orientation is strongly recommended for all clinical research personnel who are new to or new to research. The objectives are to introduce research personnel to the offices involved in clinical trials, discuss the federal and local regulations governing conduct of research, and provide an overview of best practices utilized in the implementation of clinical … Read more
NC TraCS—Responsible Conduct of Research
The NC TraCS Institute is sponsoring a one-week course in the Responsible Conduct of Research organized and run by David Weber, MD, MPH, Director of the NC TraCS Institute Regulatory Core. The course covers all the NIH-required topics for the first phase of responsible conduct of research training.

Tenth Annual Human Movement Science Research Symposium at
The tenth annual Human Movement Science Research Symposium was held March 1, 2013, at Chapel Hill.

Bailliard Awarded Funding to Help Study Immigration Experiences
Dr. Antoine Bailliard, Assistant Professor, has received a Junior Faculty Development Award and a grant from the University Research Council to study immigration experiences of the Latino community in North Carolina.