Author Archives: Kara Clissold

The UNC Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the 2023 spring award cycle. Each award recipient will receive $1,000 and a feature on the Office of Research Technologies website. The program review committee congratulates all winners and thanks those who nominated core employees for these awards...

A landmark study, led by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, professor of neurology and associate director of UNC’s Biomedical Research Imaging Center, could alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD This article was originally published here.      The brain is an incredibly complex...

Carolyn Suitt, lab manager for the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD) Histology Core, passed away Thursday February 22, 2024. Born December 2, 1964, in Franklin County, NC Carolyn moved to Chapel Hill and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry...

A subcore of the  CHANL Core Facilities, the Soft Matter Characterization Core is dedicated to delivering reliable sample analysis and professional training services on the characterization of soft materials and providing customers open access to cutting-edge, high performance analytical instrumentation.   Soft materials include colloids, polymers, foams, gels, liquid crystals,  and many biomaterials. They exhibit many useful and...

Check out the new website for the Microscopy Services Laboratory! Thank you to the School of Medicine website design team for the design work!