Assistant Professor Silvia Balbo is on the American Society of Mass Spectrometry’s 2017 list of emerging investigators for her work searching for the causes of cancer rooted in human DNA.
Awards
Tessa Lasswell Honored for Public Health Leadership at Student-run Free Clinic
Public Health Nutrition MPH student Tessa Lasswell was honored with the Minnesota Public Health Association’s Student Achievement Award for her work at the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic.
Hung Honored for Rural Health Research
Doctoral student Peiyin Hung has received the 2017 Student Achievement Award from the National Rural Health Association and John Snow Incorporated.
MnTAP wins Progress Minnesota Award
The Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) was awarded Finance & Commerce’s 2017 Progress Minnesota Award, which showcases economic development happening across the state. The program is housed in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health’s Environmental Health Sciences Division,
Tetyana Shippee Receives UMN Presidents’ Community-Engaged Scholar Award
Roetker Receives American Heart Association’s Williams Award
PhD student Nick Roetker won the American Heart Association’s Williams Award for work focusing on an epigenetic marker associated with developing atherosclerosis.
SPH Students, U of M Team Advance to National Global Health Case Competition
A multidisciplinary team that includes SPH students Spencer Cahoon and Noureldin Saad placed first in the 2017 U of M Global Health Case Competition.
HealthNewsReview.org Gets New Grant to Expand, Advise News and PR Pros
HealthNewsReview.org, led by Associate Adjunct Professor Gary Schwitzer, has received a new two-year grant from The Laura and John Arnold Foundation to continue and expand its mission to make sense of health journalism.
Kozhimannil Receives Honorable Mention for Gibbs Prize and Highlights Workplace Barriers for Nursing Mothers
A 2016 study by Associate Professor Katy Kozhimannil has received Honorable Mention for the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize, chosen by the editorial board of Women’s Health Issues.
Student Earns Fellowship to Research Meningitis Vaccine
Environmental Health PhD student Maria Sundaram has received the Graduate School’s 2017-18 Frieda Martha Kunze Fellowship and plans to spend her fellowship year completing her dissertation on the effectiveness of a meningococcal meningitis vaccine in an outbreak-prone region of Africa known as the “meningitis belt.”
Frizzell Named to U.S. Health and Human Services Committee on Minority Health
Assistant Professor Linda Bane Frizzell has been named to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Minority Health, which guides the department in developing goals and activities that benefit minority populations.
Meet the 2016 SPH Community Partner Award Recipients
Learn more about this year’s award recipients and honor them at the 13th annual Community Partners Celebration on Thursday, October 27, 2016.
