Congratulations to Ashley Bone (M&I predoctoral student in Peggy Cotter‘s lab) and Gabrielle Grandchamp (M&I predoctoral student in Beth Shank‘s lab), recipients of this year’s Horizon Awards from the UNC Graduate School. The Horizon Award recognizes graduate students who have made “discoveries with future potential to benefit North Carolina (and beyond).” Ashley and Gabrielle were … Read more

Congratulations to M&I Professor David Margolis, who has been honored with a Sarah Graham Kenan endowed professorship from UNC’s School of Medicine: http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2018/march/unc-school-of-medicine-announces-three-new-sarah-graham-kenan-distinguished-professors

Each year, NIH funding to U.S. medical schools is made public, including a department-by-department breakdown of the award data. The grant analysis for fiscal year 2017 has just been released (see brimr.org), and UNC’s Department of Microbiology & Immunology now ranks 3rd among its peers (i.e., microbiology departments at public university medical schools). Ten years … Read more

Each year, U.S. News publishes rankings of the “Best Global Universities,” designed to provide international context for a university’s academic research and reputation. Surveys and metrics are used to rank the top 1250 institutions spanning 74 countries and also to assess the strengths of 22 subject areas. For the subject area of microbiology, UNC currently … Read more

Congratulations to M&I faculty members Edward Miao, Jenny Ting, Ralph Baric, and Wesley Burks for making the “Highly Cited Researchers” list compiled annually by Thomson Reuters: “These researchers have distinguished themselves by publishing a high number of papers that rank in the top 1% most-cited in their respective fields over a recent 11-year period. Such … Read more