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A faculty member at the UNC Gillings School of
Global Public Health and his wife have
funded a new, multi-year scholarship for doctoral students in the School.
 Carolyn and Gary Koch
Koch's wife, Carolyn, holds a master's degree in education and has taught in
the N.C. public schools.
Both husband and wife value the education and training of young leaders and
repeatedly have found ways to provide public health students with new
opportunities. Koch encourages publication among his students by inviting them
to co-author papers and is a staunch supporter of student travel, helping
develop and fund numerous travel opportunities so that students can conduct
research abroad. In 2007, he received the School's John E. Larsh Award for
Mentoring.
"Students are the underlying vital energy of the
School," he says. "They challenge faculty to stay on target in terms of the
information we share in the classroom and the kind of advising we do. They
synergize the activities of teaching and research and then apply knowledge
arrived at in the classroom to their professional work."
The Kochs believe that student funding should be the
highest priority for those wanting to support the School's mission.
"We learned from the dean and department chairs," Gary Koch says, "that the
recruitment of very promising graduate students was difficult because funding
could only be promised one year at a time. We are losing out to schools that
can make a multi-year commitment."
Koch says that the couple wants the Gillings School
of Global Public Health to continue to be able to attract the most promising
students in all public health disciplines and that they are proud to provide
funding for one student to pursue his or
her education without financial strain.
"I think of this as a community responsibility," he
says. "Carolyn and I hope to support another full scholarship down the road,
but meanwhile, we encourage other faculty, alumni and friends to make this type
of important commitment."
To learn more about scholarship opportunities at the
School: visit www.sph.unc.edu/admitted_students,
or contact Felicia Mebane, PhD, assistant dean for student affairs, at (919)
966-2499 or fmebane@unc.edu.
To fund a scholarship or fellowship: contact Peggy
Glenn, associate dean for external affairs, at (919) 966-0198 or peggy_glenn@unc.edu.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact:
Ramona DuBose, director of communications,
(919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.
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