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Last updated on June 23, 2025

  • Funding Changes, Payroll
  • Reimbursements: Travel
  • School of Medicine Intranet (unc.edu)
  • State Budget Accounting
  • Travel Coordinator
    • Travel Assistance – Shakia Risby is our business services coordinator who assists us with CONCUR. All Travel Requests (Pre-Travel Authorizations) should be submitted via the online portal or here. Travel reimbursements should be submitted via the shared mailbox BCBPacctg@med.unc.edu along with the completed form provided at the bottom of the email.
  • Contact Carolyn Clabo for:
    • Communications support and resources at the University of North Carolina.
    • Directories on the Biochemistry website. Information comes from Human Resources to upload. If faculty have lab members that are paid from other units, please let Carolyn Clabo know to add people to the website directory and our departmental listservs. Back up for listservs is Steven Torchio or Rhonda Strickland
    • Donor Relations/Development (see also UNC Health Foundation staff listing)
      • to update our funds listed on the ADV online giving page, please contact Rick Root, Director of Applications & Dev Support at the University Development Office, and copy Carolyn and Latasha.
    • Graphics Design projects
      • contact Carolyn Clabo who can arrange resources with Amy Fleming who is our new SOM graphics designer beginning mid-summer 2025.
    • Media library of photos and video.
      • Besides our own images saved on the shared departmental drive, we have access to the UNC multimedia library and UNC School of Medicine Communications SharePoint. Contact SOM communications for access to their images of campus buildings. Images are not for commercial use.
    • Media Relations (if the media contacts you (even if you don’t want to respond) and for breaking news you must contact SOM Media Relations and copy Carolyn Clabo and Jean Cook)
      • SOM communication team contact details
      • All faculty, students, and lab members should contact UNC SOM Media Relations if approached by the press. Our contact is Alan Wolf, Director of News and Media Relations, who is ready to assist you with media and interview requests. He has replaced Mark Derewicz who moved to UNC Alumni Communications. In some instances, if our employees do not want to respond, our media relations will give the press another contact name for the interview so UNC does not miss this opportunity.
    • News Coordination
      • For Vital Signs, contact Leslie Wimmer and Matthew Englund at SOM Communications. You may also use the submit news form on Vital Signs. Please email Carolyn Clabo and Jean Cook on correspondence with all press-related topics. Alan Wolf will help departments coordinate their Research News and work in PR and media relations.
      • To coordinate your research news (begin this process once your high-impact paper is accepted) email Carolyn Clabo and our Chair, Dr. Jean Cook. Carolyn will then loop in our writer best suited for your news. As a guide from SOM: research publications are meant for your peers to read. Novel discoveries are newsworthy for their audience. One contact for press releases is Kendall Daniels.
      • Please coordinate your news when your paper has been accepted or your first hear of a big award with both your primary department and your affiliated departments at the same time, such as the Blood Research Center. We follow all media embargos. You should still notify us of your breakthrough news early on. The standard is that your primary unit will place the news on their website first, then other units will follow and give credit to the first group.
      • If a Lineberger member, please contact Bill Schaller to coordinate your news (always copy Carolyn Clabo and Jean Cook).
      • UNC Communications resources (over the whole university)
      • UNC Research
    • Photo Sessions
      • School of Medicine offers lab photos and headshot photography beginning June 2, 2025. To request photography support from our SOM photographer, Seth Foley, please fill out this form to get started: SOM Communications Request – School of Medicine Intranet Seth will be available for bookings beginning on Monday, June 2. If your event/deadline occurs before Monday, June 2, 2025, SOM recommends freelance photo support. 
      • How to take a photo. See smartphone photo tips. Share your new directory photos with Carolyn Clabo and your lab website administrator to update directory photos.
      • Stock photography: SOM photoshelter is available for free access, ask Carolyn Clabo for the SOM Communications toolkit. Leslie Wimmer or Matt Englund can assist.
      • UNC stock photography and videos: go to Multimedia Library | University Branding and Identity Guidelines for access to Medigraph.io.unc contact Jon Gardiner.
    • Social Media