Jeffery L. Dangl, a biologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, was part of an award-winning trio of researchers who received the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture “for groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants.”
Burmeister Lab researchers are bringing frog science to a global audience through PBS’ Emmy Award-winning travel show, “Samantha Brown’s Places to Love.”
Carolina researchers publish a groundbreaking study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field.
‘Heartbreaking’ trip to Old Fort affirmed their commitment to serve others through the Rural Medicine Pathway Program.
Patricia Gensel has spent her career studying 400-million-year-old plants at Carolina and across the globe.
Massey Award winner Summer Montgomery ’81 is a student services specialist in the department of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Massey Awards, established in 1980, recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University employees. Summer Montgomery in the department of biology and Nicholas Siedentop in the Office of Undergraduate Education are winners from the College.
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have discovered that tardigrades – microscopic animals famed for surviving harsh extremes – have an unusual response to radiation. The research, led by UNC biologist Bob Goldstein, was published in Current Biology.
Jeff Dangl, the John N. Couch Distinguished Professor of Biology, recently received the Philip N. Benfey lifetime achievement award from the Arabidopsis Community in recognition of his work on plant immunity and plant-microbe interactions.
Biologists Celia Shiau and En Yang at UNC-Chapel Hill have been awarded a competitive Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant to tackle unsolved grand challenges in neurodegenerative diseases and fundamental neuroscience.
