{"id":2760,"date":"2019-12-20T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/?page_id=2760"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:50:23","slug":"alums-donors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/alums-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni &amp; Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Opportunities to Support BioSTAR<\/h2>\n<h3>Alumni Guest Speakers<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to monetary support, we welcome participation of alumni and community scientist to visit campus to talk about their own career path and to network with students.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Patrick Brandt, PhD (<a href=\"mailto:PDBrandt@email.unc.edu\">PDBrandt@email.unc.edu<\/a>), Director of Career Development and Outreach.<\/p>\n<h3>Alumni and Community Donations<\/h3>\n<p>We welcome alumni and community members as partners in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/\">our mission<\/a>. Donations allow us the BioSTAR Office to expand our support to more students.<\/p>\n<p>We prepare scientists for the biomedical workforce by offering career training and professional development in addition to the cutting-edge research and discoveries they make in their labs. Your investment helps us to provide holistic preparation for a variety of careers in industry, non-profits and academic research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/give.unc.edu\/donate?f=345950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donate to BioSTAR by credit card<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Company Sponsorships and Donations to the Training Excellence Fund<\/h3>\n<p>The BioSTAR Office is excited to partner with companies in and beyond the RTP area of North Carolina.\u00a0 All donations to the Graduate Training Excellence Fund are used to support the mission of the BioSTAR Office, including professional development activities for life science PhD trainees such as <a href=\"https:\/\/tibbs.unc.edu\/internships\/\">the ImPACT program<\/a> and other career development programs that our office provides for graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>The donation can be made via mailed check with \u201cGraduate Excellence Fund\u201d in the memo line, by company credit card at <a href=\"https:\/\/give.unc.edu\/donate?f=345950\">https:\/\/give.unc.edu\/donate?f=345950<\/a>, or by electronic transfer.\u00a0 Please reach out to Patrick Brandt, PhD (<a href=\"mailto:PDBrandt@email.unc.edu\">PDBrandt@email.unc.edu<\/a>), Director of Career Development and Outreach for electronic transfer instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/give.unc.edu\/donate?f=345950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donate to BioSTAR via credit card<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Additional Opportunities for Companies<\/h3>\n<p>Companies can access UNC PhD level talent by hosting a site visit at their research facility or workplace. On-campus information sessions or panel discussions are also popular among trainees exploring career paths. These sessions give a company the ability to share general information about the industry and specifics about their organization and current openings.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Patrick Brandt, PhD (<a href=\"mailto:PDBrandt@email.unc.edu\">PDBrandt@email.unc.edu<\/a>), Director of Career Development and Outreach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities to Support BioSTAR Alumni Guest Speakers In addition to monetary support, we welcome participation of alumni and community scientist to visit campus to talk about their own career path and to network with students. For more information, please contact Patrick Brandt, PhD (PDBrandt@email.unc.edu), Director of Career Development and Outreach. Alumni and Community Donations We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/alums-donors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alumni &amp; Donors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94051,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2760","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/oge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}