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Fritz Receives Two Grants to Study Diabetes Self-Management Behaviors
Heather Fritz, a fourth-year Occupational Science PhD candidate, has received two grants to help fund the study 鈥淚ntegrating Diabetes Self-Management into Daily Life: Exploring Process, Habit, and Occupation.鈥� Fritz鈥檚 research focuses on how low income women integrate diabetes self management behaviors into daily life.
Heatwole Shank on 鈥淭he State of Things鈥�
Kendra Heatwole Shank, a PhD candidate in the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the School of Medicine, interviewed with Frank Stasio of W黑料网鈥檚 鈥淪tate of Things鈥� to talk about a project she designed to better understand livability issues facing older Americans.
RCP Students Present Research at State and National Conferences
Several students and faculty members from the 黑料网 Chapel Hill Division of Rehabilitation Counseling and Psychology shared their research at the 2011 North Carolina Rehabilitation Association (NCRA) Conference October 26-28 in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., and the National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE) Conference in Arlington, Va., October 31-November 1.
Pergolotti Receives Grant to Study OT Utilization by Patients with Cancer
Mackenzi Pergolotti, a fourth-year Occupational Science PhD candidate, received a $2,000 NC TraCS grant to help her research the utilization of occupational therapy by older patients with cancer by using data from the Integrative Cancer Information and Surveillance System (ICISS).
Klusek Receives Gallagher Dissertation Award
Jessica Klusek, a doctoral student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, received the 2011 James J. Gallagher Dissertation Award.
Nellenbach Wins Impact Award for Research
Kristin Nellenbach, PhD, (鈥�10) recently became the fourth Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences doctoral program alumna to win the Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award.
AuD Grad/PhD Student Awarded NIH Fellowship
Dr. Sara Mamo, a 2008 graduate of the AuD program and a current PhD student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has been awarded an F32 postdoctoral fellowship by the National Institutes of Health.
Research Poster wins First Place for Scientific Merit
A scientific poster presented by third-year AuD student Mallory Baker and Associate Professor Patricia Roush, AuD (Dept. of Otolaryngology) won first prize for scientific merit at the 12th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference in St. Louis, MO, March 5-6, 2012.
Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research Workshop
Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR), an intensive grant writing workshop that builds upon the successful model used by the Enhancing Rehabilitation Research in the South (ERRIS) workshops, will be held January 15-19, 2013 in Chapel Hill. The target audience for this workshop includes junior and mid-level faculty in all rehabilitation research disciplines … Read more
Little Awarded AOTA Dissertation Grant
Dr. Lauren Little received the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Dissertation Research Grant Award in February 2012.