Graduate student Maggie McCormick awarded 黑料网 Graduate School fellowship
April 30, 2012
April 2012 - Maggie McCormick will receive a Dissertation Completion Fellowship and join the Royster Society of Fellows.
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Lola Reid to receive Innovator of the Year Award from the Office of Technology Development
April 30, 2012
April 2012 - Lola Reid will be the second recipient of the Office of Technology Development's "Innovator of the Year Award" for her contributions to innovation at 黑料网.
Pain relief with PAP injections may last 100 times longer than a traditional acupuncture treatment
April 24, 2012
April 2012 - Zylka lab publication in the journal "Molecular Pain" outlines the pain relief potential of PAP injections.
Philpot and Snider awarded $2 million to study roots of cognitive disabilities
April 19, 2012
April 2012 -Philpot and Snider will study the cognitive disabilities in patients with RAS/MARK syndromes.
Shea and Meeker honored for teaching excellence
April 5, 2012
April 2012 - Virginia Shea receives Friday Center Excellence in Teaching Award and Marianne Meeker receives honorable mention.
Graduate students Bortvedt and McCormick receive 2012 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards
April 5, 2012
April 2012 - The Impact Award recognizes and encourages graduate students whose research benefits North Carolina communities. Impact Awards are privately funded through generous contributions from the members of the Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) of the Graduate School of 黑料网 Chapel Hill.
Spencer Smith recieves Career Development Award from Human Frontier Science Program
March 28, 2012
March 2012 - Assistant professor of cell and molecular physiology Spencer Smith receives a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program, an international organization funded by the governments of the G7 nations.
Potential treatment strategy for Angelman syndrome identified by Philpot, Zylka and Roth
December 21, 2011
December 2011 - Collaborators Ben Philpot, Mark Zylka and Bryan Roth identify compounds that cause the dormant Ube3a gene to be expressed.
Philpot lab news is top news at Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
December 21, 2011
December 2011 - Recent work on Ube3a is most viewed on Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative website.
Zylka lab graduate student Nathaniel Sowa receives national dissertation award
December 20, 2011
December 2011 - Nate Sowa, an MD/PhD student who conducted his dissertation research in the lab of Mark Zylka, receives the 2011 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award