In February 2023, The Access and Success Subcommittee successfully received a $1000.00 award from the SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to develop a peer mentor network for our trainees. Congratulations, team!

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On February 23, 2023, the UNC Department of biochemists and biophysicists held an event in celebration of Black History Month. Earlier this month, each lab nominated black scientists specifically black biochemists and biophysicists which was then highlighted 23 individuals in a rotating slideshow during our celebration. There was a large turnout to enjoy the refreshments …

Campus community members have recommended ways to help people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and the Carolina Center for Public Service lists information about those humanitarian aid efforts and other outreach.

Our Distinguished Joint Professor Jack Griffith, PhD, and postdoc Taghreed Al-Turki, PhD, found that telomeres at the tips of chromosomes contain sufficient genetic information to produce two small proteins, one of which they found is elevated in some human cancer cells.

Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research

In 2022, we ranked 8th best in NIH funding among all Biochemistry departments in the nation, securing over $18.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and 7th among public institutions.

The UNC School of Medicine Office of Research is working to expand the number of faculty in its Faculty Collaboration Database.

While you’re shaping up your must-do checklist this term, please don’t forget a critical item: take good care of your mental health and well-being.

Read our collection of diverse scientists.

Use some of your long weekends by learning to be a better mental health supporter.

Individuals within the SOM should take advantage of this program as a means to learn about DEI topics and to build inclusion into your department/unit and across the institution. If you are member of SOM and not a faculty or staff and would like to participate in this opportunity...

The Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success program, which hosted a summit titled Surviving and Thriving: Narratives from graduate students of color in early April of 2022, is now hosting several pop-up exhibits in departments and units at UNC-Chapel Hill. The pop-up exhibits will be held in the following locations: January – May 2023: Graduate Student Center February 7 – 21: Hussman School of Journalism and Media February 28 – March 14: School of Social Work, Tate Turner Kuralt Building March 23 – April 6: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Library, 3rd floor

February’s wellness news from human resources also continues focus on financial health.

Tag: News 2023

Biochemistry and Biophysics is awarded 2023 SOM DEI Mini Grant

Our 2023 celebration of Black biochemists and biophysicists

Disaster Relief Efforts for those impacted by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Scientists make stunning discovery, find new protein activity in telomeres (Jack Griffith)

We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding in 2022

Faculty: Submit Information for SOM Office of Research Database

Take Care of Your Mental Health

Be Inspired by Diverse Scientists

Ideas for the upcoming well-being days from UNC Healthy Heels

Enrolling SOM faculty and staff into DEI Certificate Program

Surviving and Thriving Spring pop-up exhibit (Spring 2023)

Check your heart, mind and biases