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Preventing vaping among teens in rural Florida

A team led by Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., will begin targeting tobacco prevention programs at youths in rural North Florida, who have some of the highest electronic vaping rates in the state. “In rural communities throughout North Florida and the Florida Panhandle, 25 percent of youths ages 11-17 report…

Student Spotlight: Alexandra Lee

Wherever Alex Lee goes, success seems to follow. When the HOBI Ph.D. candidate attended the 2018 ObesityWeek conference in Nashville, Tennessee, last November, her abstract was selected as one of the Top 12 Early Career Abstracts of the conference. Later that month, Lee published her first first-author article, “…