The clinic will be one the first of its kind in the Southeastern United States, offering extensive care for Down syndrome patients as well as paving a new avenue for clinical research.
Meltzer-Brody was part of the program at UNC that ultimately allowed for the development of the first FDA-approved postpartum depression medication.
The Translational Education at Carolina 2.0 curriculum includes small group learning, focusing on competency-based medical education rather than primarily using lectures as a form of teaching.
Through extensive research, the founder of Sunrise UNC seems to have uncovered a conflict of interest regarding the University's ties with the fossil fuel industry and their various concentrations in environmental studies.
Organized by the UNC chapter of the Sunrise Movement, students gathered by the Old Well on Oct. 3 in a vigil in remembrance of those impacted by Hurricane Helene.
The recent DEI repeal has and will continue to have pressing impacts on students' mental health.
“We're really working on the environment in which our healthcare workers work because we don't want them just to survive,” Dean of Carolina Nursing Valerie Howard said. “We want them to thrive.”
“We want to make sure to provide that avenue that allows people to feel welcome, because where you live, that's the foundation — the people you are with, that's the foundation for you to have a strong, successful year or years in college,” Christopher Williams, chief of staff for the Union of Black Men at UNC said.
Nerea Llamas, the associate University Librarian for collections strategy and services, said that Davis and the Undergraduate Library are the two most popular libraries at the University. She said she believes the move will expose the Makerspace and Music Library to thousands of visitors and will allow for longer operating hours of those spaces.
In the first half of his lecture, UNC law professor Gene Nichol told the story of James Robert Walker Jr., one of the first five Black graduates at the University who experienced discrimination in the U.S. Army and when applying to the UNC School of Law because of his race.
