Wellness Archives | Biochemistry and Biophysics

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UNC has been recognized by The Princeton Review's inaugural honor roll for mental health services, landing among 16 top undergraduate institutions. This honor reflects the University's commitment to student well-being through accessible resources and a culture of compassion and care. The review emphasized students’ quality of life, administrative backing of mental health initiatives and student empowerment through education and peer support.

Learn about campus resources and how Tar Heels are using outreach and research to prioritize on campus and beyond.

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Counseling and Psychological Services team offers 24 options to help Tar Heels talk through specific issues.

We want to make sure you are familiar with resources available to you, should you want to seek a space where you could process more individually as well as reflect on how you can continue to cope and while moving forward during these challenging times.

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Our department hosts monthly events that are open to our faculty, graduate students, postdocs, research scholars, rotation students, and staff that create opportunities to build community and foster belonging.

Our student spotlight is Emily Sipko, a graduate student in the Berlow lab who studies intrinsically disordered proteins. Learn about her interests and advice to graduate students.

Students hang out on Polk Place with a view of Wilson Library on April 18, 2023, on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)

"So where do we start? Perhaps, as Dr. Rosenstein indicated, we start with each other." Repeated trauma, especially traumas as similar and close together as the two lockdowns UNC-Chapel Hill has experienced, can be difficult. Navigating trauma is highly individualized and not at all linear. Whatever you are feeling, however you are responding, is valid.

Big thanks to BCBP administrators for providing snacks and games on Thursday, August 31, 2023, our first official day back from campus Condition 3.

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Trauma can make it hard to go about your normal life. It can shake your sense of safety — on campus and beyond. UNC Healthy Heels offers mental health strategies to cope with a traumatic events.

Read more about who can access the CAPS and Campus Health services. If you have questions please call CAPS at 919-966-3658

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Meditation is a powerful tool that improves both physical and mental health.

While you’re shaping up your must-do checklist this term, please don’t forget a critical item: take good care of your mental health and well-being.

Category: Wellness

UNC recognized by The Princeton Review’s inaugural honor roll for mental health services

Mental Health Resources for students, postdocs, faculty and staff

Postdocs and Students can connect through CAPS therapy groups

Wellness Resources Are Available

Fostering Belonging: UNC School of Medicine’s Biochemistry and Biophysics Department Strengthens Bonds with monthly events

Student Spotlight: Emily Sipko in the Berlow lab

Where Do We Start? Healing through Community

BCBP gathered to relax with puzzles and games

Try these tools to process emotions

Summer Care: UNC students may still access Campus Health and CAPS during the summer

List of Meditation spaces on campus

Take Care of Your Mental Health