April 4, 2024
The Kenan Scholarship provides support to students from rural backgrounds in North Carolina. Two recent Kenan Scholars share a passion for rural healthcare and are returning to their home communities to serve in high need positions.
March 28, 2024
The NC Albert Schweitzer Fellowship selected its class of 29 Fellows for 2024-25, including five from the UNC Adams School of Dentistry, four from the UNC School of Medicine and one from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
March 20, 2024
A new study, led by Ana T. Nogueira, PhD, Rebekah Layton, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and collaborators from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (NIH BEST) consortium, examined career confidence in graduate and postdoctoral trainees and explored how to better support international trainees across a diverse array of career paths.
March 6, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature 4th-year med student, Yoshiko Iwai, MS, MFA. Coming to the U.S. from Japan at the age of 16, Yoshiko had the dream of being on the stage showcasing her talent as a dancer, but a series of events led her to pursue her ultimate calling as a doctor.
March 5, 2024
Danae Smart, MD, MS, second-year family medicine resident at the UNC School of Medicine, created Healthcare Sparks to inspire the next generation to consider professions in healthcare and related fields.
February 25, 2024
Stage one results from the OUtMATCH clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a monoclonal antibody, omalizumab, increased the amount of peanut, tree nuts, egg, milk and wheat that multi-food allergic children as young as age one could consume without an allergic reaction. Edwin Kim, MD, Corinne Keet, MD, PhD, and Mike Kulis, PhD, are contributing authors.
February 21, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature 3rd-year medical student Blair Byrd, from Snow Camp, North Carolina, who shares about her love for art and what led her to want to become a doctor.
February 14, 2024
Spending four hours in the chemistry lab as lab partners at Wake Forest University was when it all started. This Valentine’s Day, Cy and Kandis Fogleman, 4th-year medical students at the UNC School of Medicine, share how their relationship blossomed as they learned about each other’s love for rural medicine, discovered shared values, and pursued their personal and career goals.
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 to assess how stress and sociodemographic factors affect systemic immune responses to wildfire smoke exposure.
January 31, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature 4th-year UNC School of Medicine student Clark Williamson. From Statesville, NC, Clark has always had the ambition to want to help others. After entertaining other career options, he pursued his calling after discovering his passion for medicine.
January 22, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature third-year UNC School of Medicine student Meera Deva, from Cary, NC, who told us about her aspirations to become a doctor and help those who are often neglected or struggle to access the healthcare system.
January 16, 2024
Rayad Shams, fourth year UNC School of Medicine student and 2023-24 NC Schweitzer Fellow, pens op-ed in Charlotte Observer about the living and working conditions of migrant farmworkers in North Carolina.