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Across UNC-Chapel Hill’s more than 100 core facilities, directors are constantly balancing customer needs, day-to-day operations, and the work required to keep their facilities running. That can leave promising projects on the sidelines: a new workflow to test, a protocol to develop, a software tool to build, or a process...

The exceptional quality of nominations for the Spring 2026 cycle of the Core Staff Recognition Awards made this one of the most competitive periods in the program’s history. While nomination itself is a significant honor, the award review committee was tasked with the difficult challenge of weighing a record number...

All recharge centers (also commonly referred to as core facilities) must undergo a biennial rate review through the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) to ensure UNC’s compliance with federal guidelines. Failure to charge the rates determined through the rate development process may have negative consequences for UNC during federal audits...

The Office of Sponsored Programs is working to improve the rate review process. Part of that effort has resulted in a new set of operating plan and rate development worksheet documents. Cores should use the following  documents and the new fillable pdf operating plan for all new rate review requests...

Congrats to ORT’s own Dr. Christopher Gregory on the publication of : “Addressing the Environmental Impact of Science Through a More Rigorous, Reproducible, and Sustainable Conduct of Research” in the Journal of Biomolecular Technique.    The importance of core facilities can be felt far beyond the research enterprise. This article highlights...

  Congratulations to our own Chris Gregory, Director in the Office of Research Technologies, who co-authored this publication. In 2017, the Association of Biomedical Research Facilities (ABRF) launched an initiative to specifically support rigor, reproducibility, and transparency (RR&T) in research within core facilities alongside NIH and NSF efforts more broadly....

The inaugural Core Facility Staff Recognition Awards (April 2022), sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research Technologies, received a thoroughly impressive list of nominations. Thank you to all who took time to nominate a core facility employee–all nominees should be proud of their contributions to research here...