Meyer Wins Teaching Innovation Award

Meyer Wins Teaching Innovation Award

May 5, 2022 | Meyer News, News

Students at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health voted last month to select the school’s most innovative classroom teachers. First presented in February 2012, the Teaching Innovation Awards honor faculty members who students feel “improve the learning...
Tasty Times at Livingstone College

Tasty Times at Livingstone College

May 2, 2022 | News

The NRI collaborated with the Culinary Arts program at Livingstone College in neighboring Salisbury, NC, on Tuesday, April 26, to present a spring cooking demo + nutrition talk. Part of the NRI’s Appetite For Life public series, the program featured soon-to-be...
Breaking the Obesity-Cancer Link

Breaking the Obesity-Cancer Link

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...
Training Future Scientists at the NRI

Training Future Scientists at the NRI

April 12, 2022 | News

The UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) is helping mold the scientific minds of tomorrow by offering unique opportunities for undergraduate college students to work in laboratories directly with our faculty investigators and their research staffs. Through the NRI...
PUFA Metabolism Affected by Genetics and Diet

PUFA Metabolism Affected by Genetics and Diet

April 4, 2022 | News, Voruganti News

While polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are widely considered to be among the “good” dietary fats, clear evidence of their health benefits in humans is surprisingly limited.  One of the likely causes of this ambiguity is the complexity of PUFA metabolism in the...