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2021 Diversity Awards announced on May 3
On May 3, 2021 the 2021 Diversity Awards Winners Announced including a Postdoctoral Fellow from our department. Continue reading for the full list of winners.
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On May 3, 2021 the 2021 Diversity Awards Winners Announced including a Postdoctoral Fellow from our department. Continue reading for the full list of winners.
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The 22nd Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research on May 3, 2021 from 2 to 5 p.m. is a big day for UNC students, researchers, and people who love UNC students and researchers! Four students in biochemistry and biophysics lab present their research.
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The UNC PEP-MX core has a Refeyn One Mass Photometry instrument that’s now available for use. The Mass Photometer measures minute perturbations in the refractive index of a solution as biomolecules tumble within. Sophisticated software then calculates the masses of the particles that produced those optical differences (Figure 1). Figure 1. Recent experimental data acquired by the mass photometer …
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BCBP students celebrated Earth Day on April 22, 2021 together with the recently established Environmental Task Force. ETF co-chairs Dalia Fleifel and Abigail Ballard handed out flyers and held discussions about sustainable lab practices and resources available at UNC. The ETF mission is to increase awareness and provide resources to the BCBP community about environmental …
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Congratulations to all our student seminar presentation awardees! To celebrate the end of a successful year of (virtual) student seminars, the department hosted a lunch and award event for all department graduate students. The BCBP department student seminar series is a student-created initiative that began in 2019 to help students across the department learn more about the …
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UNC is part of a national effort, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium, to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research. The PROMISE Study is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and designed to promote the success of underrepresented (UR) researchers in the biomedical workforce. Our …
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2021 Administrative Professionals Day was on April 21, 2021. Thank you so much for keeping us afloat during this most unusual and stressful year. Message from Lynn Ray, Associate Chair for Administration: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank all you for your hard work during this past year for our Department. This …
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Message released by Silvia Ramos Diversity Liaison.
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Asian American Student Leaders Present Petition for Expanded CAPS Counselor Diversity to Chancellor. Students working closely with School of Medicine and UNC leadership are advocating for improved mental health care for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) identifying students. Over 1,150 people have signed the open petition requesting access to AAPI counselors through CAPS.
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Jill Dowen lab publication featured as a highlighted article in GENETICS April 2021. Publication titled "Functional impact of cancer-associated cohesin variants on gene expression and cellular identity" was first published in February 19, 2021. A designation given to the top 1-2% of all papers in the issue.
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The unrelenting violence against Black people, particularly at the hands of police – as we have witnessed in the current trial against Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd and in this weekend’s shooting of Daunte Wright...