Professor Susan Goodwin Gerberich received the University’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education for her teaching excellence, mentoring dozens of graduate students, and conducting extensive student-involved research.
Awards
Hardeman Honored For Research in Structural Racism
School of Public Health Assistant Professor Rachel Hardeman was honored with the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Professional Article Prize for her paper, “Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health Professionals,” published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Balbo Named to List of Emerging Mass Spectrometry Investigators
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.
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.”
