UNC Core Facility Showcase Event Date: Tuesday October 22, 2024 Event Location: Koury Oral Health Sciences lobbies Event Time: 10 am – 12 pm Event Website: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/core-showcase/ Over 50 UNC Chapel Hill core facilities will be presenting posters on their services and capabilities during the UNC Core Showcase, held October 22nd as a UNC Research Week … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Zhenfa Zhang and the Biomarker Mass Spectrometry Facility in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Gillings School of Global Public Health who was awarded an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant in August! From the NSF website: This Major Research Instrumentation Project (MRI) supports the acquisition of a Waters … Read more
Check out a video highlighting the core facilities at UNC Chapel Hill!
In May 2024, Rossana Roberts, an Evaluation Research Specialist at Abacus Evaluation Services, was awarded a Core Facility Staff Recognition Award in the area of Customer Service. Rossana’s nomination highlighted her leadership skills and ability to seamlessly close the gap when senior personnel are on leave or when projects need restructuring. Additionally, her communication skills and … Read more
ORT and CFAC are excited to announce that we will once again hold a SOM Core Facility Voucher Program! The voucher program is intended for UNC researchers (from any school) to apply for up to $10,000 in funding to be spent at one or more SOM core facilities which invoice for services. This is specifically intended for NEW method development or PILOT DATA for currently unfunded projects that ALSO meets one of the following … Read more
Congratualations to Dr. Krzyzstof Krajewski of the High-Throughput Peptide Synthesis and Array Facility and Dr. Yen-Yu Ian Shih, director of the Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) in the Biomedical Research Imaging Center’s Small Animal Imaging Facility! Both are co-PIs for projects funded as through the 2024 Creativty Hub Program. For more information on the 2024 … Read more
In May 2024, Bentley Midkiff, an employee in the Pathology Services Core, was awarded a Core Facility Staff Recognition Award in the area of Technical Achievement. Bentley manages the slide scanning and image analysis aspect of the PSC, providing digital pathology support to PIs across campus. Bentley’s expertise has allowed him to develop novel imaging … Read more
CFAC Core Travel Awards! Supports conference attendance between August 2024 and January 2025 Applications will be due July 31 2024. Directors and staff of cores are eligible to apply for travel grants. We strongly encourage anyone interested in attending MAD SSci to apply for an award. For more information and application instructions please check the CFAC Travel Award Program website