G.E.A.B. Impact Awards
2008 Award Winners
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2008 winners of the Graduate Education Advancement Board's Impact 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.
Economic and Environmental
- Erin Fraher, Health Policy and Administration, The Allied Health Workforce Tracking Project
- Ying Li, Public Policy, Estimating Community Carbon Dioxide Reductions in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
- Kim Manturuk, Sociology, Assessing the Impact of Payday Lending De-authorization on Moderate-Income Households in North Carolina
- Lauren Patterson, Geography, Spatiotemporal Analysis of Socioeconomic Exposure to Assess Flood Policy Effectiveness in North Carolina
- Adam Walsh, Social Work, The Impact of Supportive Housing on the Homeless of North Carolina: Evaluation of Cost Effectiveness and Quality of Life
Education
- G. Rebecca Dobbs, Geography, The Indian Trading Path and colonial settlement development in the North Carolina Piedmont
- Paul Fitchett, Education, Why do we leave? An Examination of Social Studies Educators' Professional Intentions
- Martha King, Folklore, Madison County Project
- Elizabeth Lanter, Speech and Hearing, Emergent Literacy in Children's with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Jennifer Renn, Linguistics, Measuring Style Shift: A Quantitative Analysis of African American English
- David Silkenat, History, Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina
Health and Human Services
- Janne Boone, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity in Context: Complex Behaviors and Complex Lives
- Anthony Fleg, MD/ MPH, Native Health Initiative: A Partnership to Address Health Inequities Through Loving Service
- Morgan Jones, Health Policy and Administration, An Analysis of State High Risk Pools: Policies, Politics, and Financing
- Amy Kalkbrenner, Epidemiology, Geographic Influences on Autism Diagnosis: Accessibility of Health Services and Exposures to Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Jason Kim, Chemistry, Innovative Biomedical Applications Using Metal-Chelate Nanoparticles
- Kenneth Kolb, Sociology, Identity and Emotion Management of Staff at a Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Agency
- Sandra McCoy, Epidemiology, Understanding the Care-Seeking Behavior of HIV-Positive Persons in North Carolina: Factors Associated with Presentation to Medical Care
- Nicole Ramocki, Cell and Molecular Physiology, Regulators of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in Intestinal Cancer
- Devon Risher, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mechanism and Consequence of the Hypermethylater Phenotype in Human Breast Cancer
- Lynne Sampson, Epidemiology, Screening for Syphilis and HIV in North Carolina Jails
- Rupninder Sandhu, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sensitizing Breast Tumor Cells to Chemotherapeuhas using Demethylating Agents
- Alexia Smith, Nutrition, Altered Immune Function in Obese Mice Infected with Influenza Virus-Mechanism for Immune Modulation
- Patrick Smith, MD/ MPH, The Relationship between Functional Health Literacy and Adherence to Emergency Room Discharge Instructions among Spanish-Speaking Patients
- John Staley, Health Policy and Administration, The Determinants of Firefighter Physical Fitness: An Inductive Inquiry into Firefighting Culture and Coronary Risk Salience
- Nathan Stasko, Chemistry, Minimizing Heart Surgery Complications through the Synthesis and Characterization of Nitric Oxide Delivery Systems
- Elizabeth Torrone, Epidemiology, Late diagnosis of HIV in young men in North Carolina