News and Updates
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Meet Gaby de la Cruz, Pathology Services Core Director
In May 2024, Gabriela (Gaby) de la Cruz, director of the Pathology Services Core, was awarded a Core Facility Staff Recognition Award in the area of Performance Excellence. Gaby’s nominators spoke highly of the way she led her new team through the transitions involved with a core merger while ensuring the staff she supervised received … Read more
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Gaby de la Cruz, Bentley Midkiff, and Rossana Roberts Recipients of Spring 2024 Core Facility Staff Recognition Awards
The UNC Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the 2023 spring award cycle. Each award recipient will receive $1,000 and a feature on the Office of Research Technologies website. The program review committee congratulates all winners and thanks those who nominated core employees for these awards during this award cycle. We … Read more
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Researchers Show How Neurochemicals Affect fMRI Readings
A landmark study, led by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, professor of neurology and associate director of UNC’s Biomedical Research Imaging Center, could alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD This article was originally published here. The brain is an incredibly complex and active organ that uses … Read more
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In Remembrance of Carolyn Suitt, CGIBD Histology Core Manager
Carolyn Suitt, lab manager for the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD) Histology Core, passed away Thursday February 22, 2024. Born December 2, 1964, in Franklin County, NC Carolyn moved to Chapel Hill and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1997 while juggling working … Read more
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The Soft Matter Characterization Core is open for business
A subcore of the CHANL Core Facilities, the Soft Matter Characterization Core is dedicated to delivering reliable sample analysis and professional training services on the characterization of soft materials and providing customers open access to cutting-edge, high performance analytical instrumentation. Soft materials include colloids, polymers, foams, gels, liquid crystals, and many biomaterials. They exhibit many useful and appealing properties which account for … Read more