Around Campus
SOM among top five public universities to receive NIH funding in 2025
April 17, 2026
Many of the basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2025 and 10 clinical departments rank in the top 30.
Identifying gaps in N.C.’s behavioral health professions
April 15, 2026
The Sheps Center has released the first comprehensive look at North Carolina’s mental health and substance use services workforce, offering critical data to guide statewide policy and planning.
Empowering educators with evidence-based AI
April 13, 2026
FPG Child Development Institute researchers received $3.6 million to develop an AIpowered project that helps educators identify the most effective evidencebased practices for every student with autism, improving access to personalized instructional strategies.
School of Pharmacy’s Denise Rhoney receives AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award
April 10, 2026
Rhoney teaches within the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education and designs learning experiences that build clinical reasoning, judgment, and adaptability, helping students learn how to approach problems rather than memorize solutions.
A scalable approach to safer medication use in older adults
April 8, 2026
Researchers from SOM and the School of Pharmacy examine using centralized consultant pharmacists to help clinicians taper opioids or benzodiazepines when appropriate.
TraCS announces 2026 cohort for junior faculty development program
April 6, 2026
The Gene Orringer Junior Faculty Career Development Program (TraCS K12) is pleased to announce the names of our new cohort of CTSA K12 Scholars, who will be starting their appointments on July 1, 2026.
Powering the next generation of wearable health sensors
April 3, 2026
The College’s Yihan Liu helped design a series of new wearable systems that combine smart hardware with advanced data analysis to unlock deeper, clearer, and more meaningful physiological information.
Implant treats eye disease in military marine mammals
April 1, 2026
A crossdisciplinary team of veterinarians, marine mammal experts, and chemists from UNCChapel Hill and NC State is using tiny ocular implants to treat PCK, a group of eye diseases that affect the surface of the eye in marine mammals.
Leveraging AI to better understand brain disorders
March 30, 2026
Advancing precision nutrition strategies for autism
March 30, 2026
Nutrition Research Institute professor Isis Trujillo-Gonzalez is leading groundbreaking research to explore how choline, an essential nutrient for brain development, may help explain differences in cognitive and language outcomes among autistic children.