{"id":28044,"date":"2026-05-27T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=28044"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:34:37","slug":"dan-dominguez-recipient-of-2026-ruth-and-phillip-hettleman-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/dan-dominguez-recipient-of-2026-ruth-and-phillip-hettleman-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Dominguez receives 2026 Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Dr. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Dan Dominguez <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">on being honored as the recipient of the 2026 Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20150\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20150 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Danial Dominguez, PhD\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Danial Dominguez, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This prestigious university-wide award recognizes outstanding faculty excellence at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Dominguez was recognized for his groundbreaking and innovative research contributions to the understanding of RNA-binding proteins, reflecting the tremendous impact of his work on the scientific community. We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved achievement and look forward to his continued success and contributions to Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Dominguez on being honored with this prestigious award recognizing outstanding faculty excellence at UNC Chapel Hill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":25365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-featured","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/06\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-250-2.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/06\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-250-2.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/06\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-250-2.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/06\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-250-2.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/06\/Daniel-Dominguez-2023-250-2-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Danial Dominguez, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"Faculty News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/faculty-news\/"},{"name":"Featured News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/featured\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28044"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28088,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044\/revisions\/28088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}