Category: News

Congratulations to Mandy Bush, Director of the Respiratory TRACTS Core in the Marsico Lung Institute, on her new additional role as the Director of Research Operations at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry where she previously served as the Research Program Manager since 2022. In her new role she will...

The UNC Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the Fall 2024 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...

The UNC SOM Microscopy Services Laboratory (Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) houses the light sheet microscope responsible for two of the three winning images in the 2024 UNC SOM Art in Science competition which took place during Research Week 2024. Congrats to all of the scientists involved in the...

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...

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...

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....

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...