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.
March 7, 2025
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2024 and 13 clinical departments rank in the top 30.
February 26, 2025
Newsweek’s list for 2025 includes UNC Health Rex, UNC Medical Center and UNC Health Johnston
January 29, 2025
The Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic at North Carolina Basnight Cancer Hospital won the Pinnacle of Excellence Award. The North Carolina Heart & Vascular Hospital and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UNC Health Rex in Raleigh both won the Guardian of Excellence Award.
December 18, 2024
Harvard Neuroscientist David D. Ginty, PhD, will receive the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize for his pivotal discoveries on the sensation of touch and how our body communicates with the brain.
December 10, 2024
U.S. News’ annual list highlights hospitals that provide exceptional maternity care
November 4, 2024
Only 16 hospitals in the state of North Carolina are included in this year’s “America’s Best-in-State Hospitals” list.
October 23, 2024
Led by Kathleen Caron, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers earned a Sprint for Women’s Health Award to develop a new therapeutic approach to treating debilitating migraines that affect women.
October 9, 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for their groundbreaking work in computational protein design and protein structure prediction. UNC’s Brian Kuhlman made significant contributions to this work while a postdoctoral researcher in the Baker lab.
August 6, 2024
Only 14 hospitals in North Carolina received five stars. CMS star ratings are a comprehensive way to measure hospital quality and safety.
July 16, 2024
The Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) specialty at UNC Hospitals is nationally ranked.
July 10, 2024
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded Gilliam Fellowships to 50 graduate students in science – and their advisers – following the largest competition in the program’s history. John Patrick Flores and his adviser Douglas Phanstiel, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, were selected in the 19th year of the program.