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Alumna of the Month: Tamara Tal (2008 CiTEM PhD)

February 6, 2025
Interviewed on November 26th, 2024 Biography Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal leads the Mechanistic Toxicology Group in the Chemicals in the Environment Research Section (CITE) at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. She also holds a Professorship in Integrated Systems Toxicology in the Medical Faculty at the University of...

Announcing 2024-25 Jefferson-Pilot Recipient Dr. Meghan Rebuli

October 14, 2024
The Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine are amongst the most prestigious awards given to junior faculty members. These awards recognize the outstanding accomplishments of the recipients, and bestow a monetary awards that the awardees can use at their discretion to further their research programs. The 2024-25 recipients of the Jefferson-Pilot...

Congratulations to all Leon Golberg Travel Award Recipients!

March 19, 2024
Please join me in congratulating all of our Leon Golberg Travel Award Recipients! These students submitted outstanding abstracts and earned this competitive travel award. Many of the recipients below utilized their awards to travel to this year’s Society of Toxicology Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, to present their...

Brittany Rickard Wins The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award

March 19, 2024
Congratulations to our very own Brittany Rickard for winning the Biological & Life Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award. The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes the highest level of graduate student scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill, highlighting the original and innovative work of our doctoral candidates and graduates. Please join us...

Five Questions with Aleah Bailey

February 1, 2024
January 31, 2024 In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Aleah Bailey in the Jaspers lab. Ignited by a longtime passion for environmental justice, Bailey seeks assess how stress and sociodemographic factors affect systemic immune responses to wildfire smoke exposure. Aleah Bailey is a 4th-year PhD candidate in...

Director Ilona Jaspers, PhD Wins SOT Educator Award

January 16, 2024
Education Award Ilona Jaspers, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC The Education Award is presented to an individual who is distinguished by the teaching and training of toxicologists and who has made significant contributions to education in the broad field of toxicology. For her progressive vision...

CiTEM Faculty Member Gregory Smith Wins Junior Faculty Development Award

December 13, 2023
Congratulations to Greg Smith for this outstanding achievement! | JFDA  Announcement |    

CiTEM Trainee Awards

September 19, 2023
We’d like to take the opportunity today to recognize a few of our students on their tremendous achievements of late. Stephanie Brocke and Roland Seim – recipients of the Jeffrey Houpt Innovator Award in Environmental Health Research. The Jeffrey Houpt Innovator Award is used to augment the biomedical graduate training...

Rooted: Ilona Jaspers

September 13, 2023
Our very own Dr. Ilona Jaspers – Director of CiTEM – was interviewed this past week as part of UNC Research’s Rooted interview series.   Read about it here!   Rooted recognizes long-standing members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community who have aided in the advancement of research by staying at Carolina. They...

Welcoming Our New Faculty Members

September 7, 2023
As we get settled into the swing of things and the leaves begin to change this Fall Semester, we would like to welcome our new faculty members to the curriculum. These new faculty members are: Robert Roth, Erin Baker, Johanna Smeekens, Hisham El-Masri, Sheikh Shehzad, and Liz Corteselli. Dr. Robert...