Congratulations to UNC Biology undergraduate student Madison Milotte for being featured on UNC’s website. The article, “UNC junior studies how climate change might disrupt butterfly life cycles,” highlights Milotte’s use of a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to complete their research. Read the full article here.
Rebecca Van Hoeck, a Biology graduate student in Joel Fodrie’s lab, has been awarded the NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. This fellowship supports graduate students with interests in ocean, coastal and Great Lake resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources, and matches them with “hosts” in the legislative and executive branches of government in DC. Congratulations, Becca!
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Peter White whose new book is just out: The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth’s Forest Ecosystems by Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, Jérôme Chave. It’s a textbook that’s also a work of art, filled with information interspersed with remarkable photographs. Congrats, Dr. White!
Congratulations to UNC Biology’s own Hooker Distinguished Professor Mark Peifer for being published in PNAS! The article, entitled “To condense or not to condense: Wnt regulation by centrosome-nucleated biomolecular condensates” can be found here. Congratulations, Professor Peifer!
“In the San Juan Mountains near Silverton, Colorado, four UNC-Chapel Hill students wake at 5 a.m. to melodic phone alarms and amble out of their dew-soaked tents. They sleepily shimmy into rainproof jackets, pants, and knee-high rubber boots. They heat water for tea and munch on Pop-tarts and energy bars while they wait. With steamy mugs in hand, they clamber into their white van to head to the field site a half-mile down the road.” READ MORE
Eric was featured in the latest Teaching Newsletter, a weekly digital newsletter sent out by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Eric shares is creative take on open office hours! READ MORE!
Congratulations to Wei Shi for receiving a 2022 PARE Award! According to the article, “Each year, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Meet this year’s recipients and learn about their areas of interest. The PARE awards are open to postdoctoral scholars in all disciplines and are designed to assist them in their continued professional development by supporting the recipients in conference travel, purchasing books, lab materials, or engaging in other scholarly activities that directly enhance the individual’s professional growth. Each recipient receives a monetary award of $1,200 along with a plaque.” Be sure to read the full announcement and check out Wei Shi’s profile here!
Congratulations to new UNC Biology graduate student Madelina Marquez for being featured in a Grad School Magazine article about incoming Royster Fellows! Read the full article here.
Congratulations to UNC Biology’s adjunct faculty member Dr. Aziz Sancar for an important anti-cancer discovery featured on the UNC Health website. From the website: “Experiments from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, show how a common molecular tool for DNA labeling also has anticancer properties worthy of further investigation, especially for brain cancers.” Be sure to check out the full article here.
The Graduate School and the UNC-CH Materials Research Society are partnering with faculty members, Dr. Sophie McCoy, Biology, and Dr. Ashalla Freeman, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, to offer a four-part workshop series for students interested in applying for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers. Applicants must be pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education at accredited US institutions. Final year undergraduate and first and second year graduate students (who do not hold a graduate degree) are eligible to apply. NSF offers an eligibility quiz to confirm your eligibility, and the full solicitation can be found on their website.
The GRFP includes three years of support, including an annual $37,000 stipend and a $12,000 cost-of-education allowance, which is supplemented by The Graduate School to cover the full cost of enrollment and health insurance. Applications are due mid- to late-October.
Please consider joining us for the following events (registration links below):
Information for NSF GRFP Applicants: Overview and Strategy
Date: Tuesday, August 30th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Hosted by: Sophie McCoy
Location: Kerr 1001
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Information for NSF GRFP Applicants: Brainstorming Your Essays
Date: Thursday, September 1st
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Hosted by: Sophie McCoy
Location: Kerr 1001
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Understanding Broader Impacts for the NSF GRFP Application
Date: Monday, September 12th
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Hosted by: Ashalla Freeman
Location: Virtual
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Peer Review Workshop – Connecting Applicants with Fellows
Date: Wednesday, September 28th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Hosted by: Materials Research Society and The Graduate School
Location: Kenan Science Library (Ground Floor of Murray Hall)
REGISTER