The Department of Allied Health Sciences held its annual career fair on January 31, 2017. The Department of Allied Health Sciences held its annual career fair on January 31, 2017. The department thanks the 29 employers and 110 participants who came out to the fair, hosted in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. Students were … Read more

Tar Heel Reader, a joint project between the Department of Computer Science and the UNC School of Medicine Department of Allied Health Sciences, celebrated 10 million books accessed on January 31, 2017. Tar Heel Reader (THR), an eight-year-old collaborative venture between the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Center for Literacy and Disability Studies and the Department of Computer Science, … Read more

The awards, offered every other year, honor faculty members who have served the DAHS for three or more years and have made significant contributions of leadership and excellence. The Department of Allied Health Sciences honored three of its faculty members on Thursday, December 8, 2016, with the creation of three inaugural awards. Melissa Culp, with the … Read more

UNC’s Department of Radiology and the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Division of Radiologic Science have worked together to strengthen an international footprint in radiology. Recognizing a need In 2012, Robert G. Dixon, MD, FSIR, the then-diagnostic radiology residency program director for the UNC Department of Radiology, saw a need for radiologist involvement in the global health … Read more

A UNC-CH occupational therapy graduate has provided insight for inclusive play structures for children in the Greensboro community. Meg Harris, MS, OTR/L, lead occupational therapist with Guilford County Public Schools, served as a consultant on a community project in Greensboro, North Carolina, to provide an inclusive play structure for all children within the accessible children’s area … Read more

The Department of Allied Health Sciences celebrated its 10th annual Scholarships and Awards Brunch, designed to celebrate donors and students across eight departmental programs. Dozens of esteemed donors joined nearly 100 student scholars from the Department of Allied Health Sciences to celebrate the department’s tenth annual Scholarships and Awards Brunch on Saturday, November 5, 2016. … Read more

The inaugural Lee McLean Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring honored Dr. Elizabeth R. Crais at The Carolina Club in early November. The UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Allied Health Sciences awarded the inaugural Lee McLean Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring to Dr. Elizabeth R. Crais, CCC-SLP and American Speech-Language-Hearing Associations Fellow, on Tuesday, … Read more

Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences doctoral student Nancy Quick was awarded the people’s choice winner at the second annual Three Minute Thesis Competition hosted by The Graduate School on November 1st. Nancy Quick, a doctoral student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, won the people’s choice award at UNC-Chapel Hill’s second annual Three Minute … Read more

A top industry publication has named a program in the Division of Clinical Laboratory Science as number one among its competitors nationwide. Top industry publication ADVANCE for Laboratory Managers has ranked the UNC School of Medicine’s Clinical Laboratory Science program as the number one program in the United States. The program is in the Division of Clinical Laboratory Science … Read more

Research conducted by a nationwide team, including the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Dr. Stephen Hooper, found associations between hypertension and cognitive issues in children. The research is scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics. The New York Times highlighted this research in a recent article. The UNC School of Medicine’s Dr. Stephen Hooper, chair … Read more