The Impact of Giving
Thank you for considering making a gift to the Graduate School. Private donations support fellowships, travel opportunities, professional development and enrichment courses, and more for graduate students across Carolina's campus.
Below are some examples of the students and their research that you will be supporting. Click on their pictures for more information about their research and it's impact.
Amy E. Kalkbrenner, Epidemiology
Autism is a severe, lifelong development disability characterized by impairments in communication and social interaction. It affects as many as 7,700 children under 10 years of age in North Carolina. However, the causes of autism are poorly understood…
Teacher turnover is a national phenomenon that has crippling effects on the state’s learning institutions. In North Carolina, attrition rates have slowly climbed over the last several years…
Jennifer Carter, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Breast cancer affects many women every year in North Carolina, with an estimated 1,200 deaths in 2008. Obesity is a risk factor associated with increased risk of breast cancer…
Obesity rates have increased dramatically in the United States since the late 1970s. In North Carolina, childhood obesity rates are ranked fifth highest in the nation…
Anthony Fleg, Medicine/Public Health
More than 100,000 American Indians live in North Carolina, giving it the largest American Indian population of any state east of the Mississippi. Yet American Indians remain relatively invisible to policymakers and health care systems…
Linda K. Ko, Health Behavior & Health Education
Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in North Carolina and the third leading cause of cancer death. Dietary factors, such as eating more fruits and vegetables, have been shown to decrease the risk for colorectal cancer…
Sixty percent of North Carolinians who go to the Emergency Room with symptoms of a heart attack receive potentially life-saving reperfusion therapies. Yet despite this procedure's ability to open clogged arteries, it can also damage tissue and weaken heart muscle function…
Jacqueline G. Wallenborn, Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Air that North Carolinians breathe is polluted by zinc-containing articles from millions of motor vehicles on heavily-traveled interstates and the network of coal-burning power plants, both in-state and up-wind…
To find out more, please contact Katie Biasi at meyerk@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-6326.