March 13, 2023 | Hursting News, News
by Violet Kiesel, PhD Obesity is a major problem. Having obesity increases risk of developing serious chronic diseases like cancer, which can reduce quality of life and lifespan. This risk becomes more striking when considering the growing number of people who are...
November 4, 2022 | Hursting News, News
Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH, Director of the Nutrition Research Institute and Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, was awarded the American Institute for Cancer Research’s (AICR) Distinguished Service Award on November 2 at the 2022 AICR...
October 19, 2022 | Hursting News, News
April 21, 2022 | Hursting News, News
It was in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill that Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) Director Stephen Hursting first got interested in cancer research. After completing his MPH and working for two years as a research associate at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer...
June 1, 2021 | Hursting News, News, Zeisel News
Stephen Hursting, PhD, can still remember visiting Carolina for the first time before beginning his graduate studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. “I came on a beautiful, sunny spring day. It was 1982 and UNC had just won the [NCAA] National Championship on Michael Jordan’s...
