June 19, 2024
Headspace, the popular wellness app, is available to UNC Health Employees, a partnership highlighted in a two-part episode of the TarHeal Wellness podcast exploring the partnership and available resources, including evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and family support.
June 19, 2024
The Academy of Educators, housed within the School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development, has recognized 27 faculty and trainee members with teaching awards.
June 19, 2024
This year’s UNC TEACCH Autism Program Conference focuses on community collaborations that truly make an impact on the lives of autistic individuals across the world. Presenters will cover community collaborations to support autism diagnoses in rural communities and to support mental health interventions through collaborations with early intervention providers, educators, and autistic adults. Join us on October 24-25, 2024 in person at UNC Friday Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC or virtually.
June 19, 2024
The UNC Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program published a study about the effectiveness of pictorial health warning labels as proven tools for communicating the dangers of tobacco product use. The study, led by Sonia Clark, MHA, a social clinical research specialist in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, sought to identify the most effective types of images to pair with newly developed cigar health warning labels.
June 19, 2024
UNC Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program (TPEP) researchers performed a content analysis of all candy tobacco imitation products available for online purchase in the United States, finding that 75% of candy tobacco imitation products that had packaging design available had content that appealed to youth.
June 7, 2024
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
June 5, 2024
UNC SOM would like to take a minute to congratulate the 2023-2024 Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) student Inductees.
June 5, 2024
The Spring 2024 Core Facility Staff Recognition Awards were awarded to Gaby de la Cruz (Pathology Services Core) for Performance Excellence, Bentley Midkiff (Pathology Services Core) for Technical Achievement, and Rossana Roberts (Abacus Evaluation) for Customer Service. Congratulations!
June 5, 2024
Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, chair of urology and member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, was selected by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) to participate in the 2024 class of the NAM Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program.
May 15, 2024
Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project “Defining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells” which is funded for five years and $4.6 million.
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.
May 15, 2024
Brooke Matson, Jeremy Meier, Brittany Raffa, and Shivani Sud will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational clinical scientists.