G.E.A.B. Impact Awards
2007 Award Winners
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2007 winners of the Graduate Education Advancement Board's Impact Awards and the honorable mention Recognition Awards which honor graduate students whose research has a direct impact on the state of North Carolina. (More information about the Impact Awards.) The breadth of these students' work reaches from one end of North Carolina to the other. These research projects have had a positive impact on the citizens of North Carolina, and beyond, through new knowledge and insights gained and through the educational, economic, health, social, cultural, and environmental effects of these research endeavors.
2007 Impact Award Winners
- Allison Anders, Education, Reducing Recidivism in Correctional Institutions: An Education Program that Works
- Allan Freyer, City and Regional Planning, Resources to Recover: A Policy Tool for Responding to Economic Disasters
- Mileka Gilbert, Microbiology and Immunology, Understanding the Mechanisms Regulating Autoimmune Reactions in Lupus
- Danielle Haley, Health Behavior and Health Education, Release Programs for HIV-infected Inmates: Implications for North Carolina
- Seth Kotch, History, Capital Punishment and Southern Culture in 20th-Century North Carolina
- Lynette Phillips, Epidemiology, Hormonal and Reproductive Risk Factors and Breast Cancer
- David Roberts, Psychology, Improving Social Functioning in Schizophrenia Patients
- David Rosen, Epidemiology, Mortality Among North Carolinians with a History of Incarceration
- Tamara Tal, Toxicology, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution
- Stephen Whitlow, City and Regional Planning, Urban Distressed Communities in North Carolina
2007 Recognition Award Winners
- Emily Bobrow, Maternal and Childhood Health, and Melissa Roche, Health Behavior and Health Education, Intimate Partner Violence in Health Care Settings
- Jennifer Carter, Pathology and Lab Medicine, Diet, Obesity and Breast Disease
- Pajarita Charles, Social Work, and Valerie Cooley, Public Policy, CareerStart: A School and Career Engagement Strategy for Middle School Students
- Laura DiMichele, Pathology and Lab Medicine, Fighting Cardiovascular Disease: The Role of the Focal Adhesion Kinase Protein
- Jeremiah Hinson, Pathology and Lab Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke: The Role of Smooth Muscle Cells
- Kelly Kandra, Psychology, Teenage Tobacco Use, Prevention and Cessation and the TRU Campaign
- Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, Health Behavior and Health Education, Neighborhood and Family Effects on Youth Aggression
- Jason Mihalik, Human Movement Science, Analyzing Head Impacts in Youth Ice Hockey and Collegiate Football Players
- Ashley Rivenbark, Toxicology, Mechanisms of gene regulation in breast cancer
- Brittany Whitmire, Public Administration, Who Will Fill the New Boots? Succession Planning in Farm Businesses