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Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz announced the establishment of the UNC COVID-19 Research Accelerator Fund on April 24. The fund will provide support to Carolina’s critical research teams focused on COVID-19 testing, treatment and prevention.
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Publication "A WIZ/Cohesin/CTCF Complex Anchors DNA Loops to Define Gene Expression and Cell Identity" in Cell Reports
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks second in the United States in the 2020 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which measure sustainability among institutions of higher education. The 2020 rankings, released April 22, placed Carolina at 22nd overall in the world out of 766 institutions from 85 countries, an improvement from our rank as 24th in the inaugural Impact Rankings in 2019.
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Aspen Gutgsell has been awarded the 2020 Diane Harris Leadership Award for exemplary public service.
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UNC is the highest-rated university in the United States for coronavirus research, according to a recent ranking by Microsoft Academic. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and since, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have published more peer-reviewed articles and have been cited more than any other academic institution in the United States.
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In the first piece as a writer for the North Carolina DNA Day Blog. The blog is an extension of the NC DNA Day program, which aims to get high school students in the state interested in science. Anna looks forward to continuing her participation in this program and developing her skills as a writer …
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Working remotely from their home offices, the University’s librarians are helping the world’s virologists fight coronavirus by making faculty research more accessible online through the Carolina Digital Repository. The coronavirus example shows how valuable a reliable open access source can be for researchers. During the pandemic, “Researchers have identified and shared hundreds of viral genome sequences. More than 200 clinical trials...
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Hashem Meriesh, under the direction of Dr. Brian Strahl, successfully defended his dissertation on April 10, 2020 and received his PhD. The title of his dissertation is “Elucidating the function of the histone H4 basic patch in SAGA-mediated histone H2B deubiquitination and histone acetylation”. During his time at UNC, Hashem was awarded a T32 training …
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Jared Baisden, under the direction of Dr. Qi Zhang, successfully defended his dissertation on April 9, 2020 and received his PhD. The title of his dissertation is “Probing Excited Conformational States Involved in microRNA Biogenesis” Jared received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. His …
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The new website is a one-stop-shop for guidance and information about resources related to everything from academics to financial aid to wellness. Posted by University Communications, Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 Dear Carolina Community, Today, we are launching a new website called the COVID-19 Student Care Hub to help you — our students — stay connected with the …
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Aspen Gutgsell under the direction of Dr. Saskia Neher, successfully defended her dissertation on March 30, 2020 and received her PhD!