Biochemistry and Biophysics Student Defense: Student: Justin Rectenwald (student of Ken Pearce and Stephen Frye) Title: "Technology Development for Inhibitor Discovery of Chromatin Associated Proteins Linked to Lysine Methylation" Date/location: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 10:00am via Zoom meeting. Links will be provided to UNC affiliated email addresses only or through written consent of defending student. … Read more
Mark your calendars for the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoc-Faculty Research Day, which will be split up across the afternoon of November 5th and the morning of November 6th, 2020. This year’s event will be all virtual but will feature the same quality of speakers and posters that you’ve come to expect! Abstract submissions are now open to all Lineberger-affiliated postdocs … Read more
Mark your calendars for the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoc-Faculty Research Day, which will be split up across the afternoon of November 5th and the morning of November 6th, 2020. This year’s event will be all virtual but will feature the same quality of speakers and posters that you’ve come to expect! Abstract submissions are now open to all Lineberger-affiliated postdocs … Read more
Biochemistry and Biophysics faculty and staff are encouraged to participate in The Groundwater Approach: Building a practical understanding of structural racism,” an informational webinar presentation on the nature and impact of structural racism.
Host: Rob McGinty
An alternative to Safe Zone that similarly introduces concepts, terminology and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. The curriculum also covers LGBTQ health disparities, health resources, and common health professional scenarios, along with a terminology primer and strategies for allyship. This training is intended to address concerns particular to Health Care professionals, though it is open to all campus and community members.
The second in the R3 series, “Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor: The Mediated Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies.” Scholars from across UNC, including Business and Communications, will share their work addressing issues of language, representation, cultural appropriation, and decontextualization of Black and Brown labor as it appears through a variety of media. “It was … Read more
Please join us on at 10:30am on November 12, 2020 to hear Louis Muglia, M.D., Ph.D., President and CEO of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, present a seminar to the UNC community entitled “The Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Mission, Priorities and Opportunities”. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and what it could do for various research … Read more
Join Honors Carolina and Phi Beta Kappa Society for the second talk of the six part series, Systemic Racism and Education presented by Constance Lindsay, assistant professor of Education. Lindsay earned a doctorate in human development and social policy from Northwestern University, where she was an Institute of Education Sciences’ predoctoral fellow. Since leaving Northwestern, … Read more
The Standard Safe Zone is a four-hour training is designed to introduce concepts, terminology and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. There is a short intermission about half way through. Safe Zone trainees develop: A deeper awareness of personal ideas, stereotypes, and assumptions related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and … Read more
