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   October 2025Storm Water ServicesMonthly VolunteerNewsletter It’s finally fall, and you won’t be-LEAF all the great ways to get involved this month!  Check out what our volunteers have been up to and how you can contribute to healthy streams in October!     Volunteer Spotlight!   We would like to highlight Professor Goff’s Freshman class at UNC Charlotte as […]

With the culmination of Post-Doc Appreciation Week, let us honor the remarkable post-doctoral scholars whose expertise inspires innovation and drives transformative research for a better future. We would especially like to honor Department of Biological Science postdoctoral fellows Dr. Yevheniia Bushman and Dr. Quinton Kreuger who have been featured by the Office of Graduate Admissions.

UNC Charlotte’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science (CBES) and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech) hosted the 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium on Monday, Sept. 15 at the Dubois Center. The event kicked off North Carolina Life Sciences Week as proclaimed by North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein and Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, bringing together over 300 representatives from 70+ institutions to share research and […]

The 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium kicked off North Carolina Life Sciences Week on Monday, Sept. 15 at the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, where students from universities across North Carolina presented their research throughout the afternoon. The event featured 113 research projects, including 65 poster presentations and 40 oral presentations. UNC Charlotte’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science (CBES) […]

UNC Charlotte, in partnership with the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, welcomes statewide biomedical and biotechnology leaders Monday, Sept. 15, for the 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium at The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City. The event details and other information about this exciting week can be found here.

UNC Charlotte researcher Danillo Augusto, Ph.D., was recently awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an immunomics project that is using a new approach to study human immune response and autoimmune diseases.  Read the full story here.

On May 20, 2025, two UNC Charlotte graduate students, Lauren Hultquist, a master’s student in Psychology, and Melissa Hatley, a Ph.D. student in Biology, proudly represented Charlotte at Graduate Education Day in Raleigh. As North Carolina natives, they met with ten state policymakers to champion the cause of graduate researchers statewide. Hultquist showcased her vital work […]

Pinku Mukherjee, the Irwin Belk Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, and team member Ru Zhou, research associate professor in biological sciences, are developing a novel T-cell engager derived from a patented monoclonal antibody against a tumor-specific protein that is present on 85% of solid tumors.  This T-cell engager, which directs the body’s own T cells […]

Congratulations to faculty in Biological Sciences honored in the Million Dollar Research Circle Class of 2025. Chancellor Gaber hosted a reception recognizing faculty for their extraordinary external research dollars brought to the university. Honorees in Biological Sciences include Danillo Augusto, Kristen Kunk Johnson, Ian Marriott, Bao-Hua Song, Andrew Truman, Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, and Shan Yan. Additionally Danillo […]

The 24th annual Graduate Research Symposium (GRS) was held in the Student Union at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Friday April 11th, 2025. Congratulations to the organizers and presenters including many of our graduate students.  Kudos to our graduate students recognized during the 24th annual Graduate Research Symposium for their Oral presentations in the two Health and Science Graduate Research tracks: […]