April 3, 2025
PRISM, a UNC School of Medicine and BioSTAR initiative, offers "Bright Futures in Science and Medicine" for postbac students. Apply by May 1 (Summer) or July 1 (Fall) 2025!
March 26, 2025
Focusing on a Southeast 5-county region: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, and Pender counties, the three student members completed site visits, engaging local practitioners, and completed school visits to recruit providers and broaden access to occupational therapy services.
March 20, 2025
UNC-Chapel Hill Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences Dr. Stephanie Sjoblad was recently awarded the Outstanding Educator Award from the American Academy of Audiology. The award is given by asking colleagues, friends, and mentees in their professional circles to nominate colleagues who deserve recognition for outstanding service to audiology and the hearing sciences.
June 25, 2024
After a thorough systematic analysis, Micheal Sandbank, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and other researchers across the United States found that evidence was lacking that higher intensity interventions provided increased benefits for young autistic children.
May 15, 2024
The University Libraries has a new website: https://library.unc.edu/health-sciences/ Because the new site is designed to be more intuitive for first-time users, some resources and service requests on the Health Sciences Library's web site might be in different places. Existing website links are now redirecting to the appropriate page on the new site.
November 20, 2023
A new meta-analysis led by Micheal Sandbank, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the UNC School of Medicine, found that the field of autism needs more high-quality randomized studies of early interventions to help clinicians understand how to better support children diagnosed with the condition.
July 17, 2023
The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and energetic leader to serve as chair and associate dean for the Department of Health Sciences. The selected individual will lead a diverse group of faculty, trainees and staff members and will oversee all aspects of the department, including clinical practice, education, research and fiscal management consistent with the strategic planning of the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Hospitals and UNC Health.
July 11, 2023
Springer recently released "Chronic Illness Care, Principles and Practice," edited by UNC Family Medicine's Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, and Margaret R. Helton, MD. Faculty members in the Department of Family Medicine, faculty across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, and other national and international experts wrote the textbook.
May 24, 2023
Doctoral student Orla Putnam's research will examine prosody, which is the rhythm, tone and pattern used during spoken language in males and females with and without autism, and will compare prosody to assessments of social function and interest. Results will inform caregivers, educators and clinicians when considering a possible autism diagnosis for girls.
September 6, 2022
The UNC Department of Psychiatry seeks female teens with depression, suicidal thoughts, or thoughts of self harm for a study seeking to understand the influence of the menstrual cycle and associated hormones on female teens' stress responses and mood systems.
August 31, 2022
UNC School of Medicine’s 55th annual Student Research Day will take place on Friday, Nov. 11. The John B. Graham Research Society is seeking faculty judges to help make the day a success by providing formative feedback to student presenters.
January 26, 2022
TraCS Team Science is seeking to assist UNC researchers with the formation and development of multidisciplinary research teams focused on tackling challenging problems in clinical or translational medicine through the new ACTeR program. Phase 2 provides up to $50,000 and up to 0.5 FTE Project Manager support for up to 12 months to support the generation of preliminary data and grant application preparation. Submissions are due March 16, 2022.