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Pre-doctoral fellowship for youth violence prevention funded by NC-ACE

 

2010 IPRC Student Small Grant Recipients

Ashley Brooks, doctoral student in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education for research on: The trajectories of Adolescent Dating Abuse Perpetration and Victimization: The Impact of Pubertal Timing and the Role of Peer Context.
Josh Tennant, resident in the Department of Orthopaedics for research on: Accuracy and Reliability of Mobile Devices to View X-Rays for Orthopaedic Diagnosis and Treatment Planning.

 

Short-term Special Project for a graduate student at the North Carolina Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB)

The North Carolina Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB) within the Division of Public Health seeks assistance with increasing its capacity to use policy as a public health intervention. This is a great opportunity that could be translated into master's thesis project and/or other school related needs.
See here for more information.

 

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, a research center focused on child and family policy, have launched the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect for doctoral and dissertation students. The new program aims to identify and nurture promising leaders in child abuse prevention.
See here for more information.

 

Student Internships

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellows Program
    Designed to diversify the evaluation field by providing individuals from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities with the necessary skills and training to become program evaluators. The Evaluation Fellows program invites emerging professionals who have graduated from a master¡¯s or doctoral degree program within the last three years to apply for a one-year, full-time fellowship with an organization that specializes in evaluation. Deadline for applications is July 31, 2010. Current students should be scheduled to graduate by December 2010. The fellowship year begins March 1, 2011.
    For more information go to: http://www.rwjf-evaluationfellows.org/application-page

 

2009 Susan P. Baker Award Recipient

IPRC is pleased to announce the winner of the Susan P. Baker Paper Prize to Heath Luz McNaughton Reyes for her paper entitled /Alcohol Use of Dating Violence Perpetration during Adolescence: Exposure to Family, Peer and Neighborhoods Violence as Moderators/. Heathe is a recent graduate of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.