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Second-year Physician Assistant Studies students are teaming up at ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill’s Be a Maker (BeAM) makerspace where the University community can design and make of physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation to assemble personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Four Doctor of Audiology (AuD) students in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences received the award for best poster at the national 2020 Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference in Kansas City, Missouri, held in early March.

Morgan Fisher ’20 will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory science; she will also enter the profession with a wealth of patient care experience in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alec Fields, a second-year student in Physician Assistant Studies who began to use his personal 3D printer to create much-needed brackets for personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has received numerous requests for the brackets from around the country.

Meaghan Whalen, a second-year student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences studying speech-language pathology, has repurposed communication resources in order to equip health care providers as they treat patients who face COVID-19.

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services’ Rehabilitation Services Administration (OSERS/RSA) has awarded Eniko Rak with a five-year training grant to fund up to 36 students in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling master’s program.

Valerie Tan, the associate chair for administration in the Department of Allied Health Sciences in the ºÚÁÏÍø, has been selected as the staff recipient of the 2020 University Awards for the Advancement of Women, offered annually by the Carolina Women’s Center. Tan, who began work at ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel...

Emily Wilkins is a second-year Physician Assistant Studies student from Rutherfordton, North Carolina who returned to work in neighboring Hendersonville as a paramedic during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve our state.

A continuing education ethics event hosted in March by the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy—originally intended for an in-person audience—drew more than 400 participants after it moved online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Neil Patel ’18 trained as a clinical laboratory scientist but never imagined he’d work with a team of scientists and researchers to fight the spread and intensity of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19.