Category: Announcements

Dr. Freeman Elected to UNC Faculty Council

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Ronit Freeman has been elected to UNC’s Faculty Council! She will serve a three-year term beginning in June 2020.  Like colleges the world over, UNC is facing unique challenges at this time. We look forward to hearing Dr. Freeman’s voice among the other faculty and student representatives on… Continue reading Dr. Freeman Elected to UNC Faculty Council

Pandemic Lessons

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced colleges and educators to think on their feet and drastically alter their practices.  Moving courses online and practicing social distancing are only some of the changes being made. A new article posted on the UNC College of Arts and Sciences website highlights some of the ways faculty are adjusting their… Continue reading Pandemic Lessons

Coming Together To Print Solutions

The current outbreak of COVID-19 has highlighted an urgent need for personal protective equipment (PPE) among the medical teams working on the front lines to treat the disease. PPE shortages have been reported in hospitals throughout the globe, and groups of individuals and organizations worldwide have stepped up to assist. Here in North Carolina, UNC’s… Continue reading Coming Together To Print Solutions

Featured: ACS Biomaterials Sci. Eng.

A new paper by the Freeman Lab has been published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. Titled “Gelator Length Precisely Tunes Supramolecular Hydrogel Stiffness and Neuronal Phenotype in 3D Culture“, the paper showcases strategies to tune mechanical stiffness of hydrogels for use in three-dimensional cell cultures and transplantation matrices for neural regeneration.

Editor’s Choice: Journal of the American Chemical Society

A new paper featuring work by Ronit Freeman has been picked for Editor’s Choice in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Titled “Hierarchical assembly of DNA origami nanostructures using coiled-coil peptides”, this paper demonstrates the successful merging of two distinct self-assembly modes to create hybrid bionanomaterials, which is expected to have a range of potential… Continue reading Editor’s Choice: Journal of the American Chemical Society

Maggie Daly Wins 1st Prize At TSRC

We are thrilled to announce that Freeman Lab PhD candidate Maggie Daly has won first place in the Biomaterials category for her poster presentation at the 7th Annual Triangle Student Research Competition (TSRC).  TSRC is a poster session and networking event for students in the Research Triangle to showcase their research, practice for national conferences, and… Continue reading Maggie Daly Wins 1st Prize At TSRC

Dr. Freeman, Designing for Change

On Thursday October 24, Dr. Freeman will be a panelist at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Designing for Change: Women in Entrepreneurship panel.  She will be joining 5 young UNC alumnae panelists who will share their personal stories and experiences as females in entrepreneurship. After the panel discussion, the event will open up… Continue reading Dr. Freeman, Designing for Change

Maggie Daly Awarded NSF Fellowship

We are excited to announce that Freeman Lab Ph.D. candidate Maggie Daly has been selected for the 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Each year NSF recognizes outstanding graduate students in STEM fields of study who “have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers, early in their career.” Maggie is… Continue reading Maggie Daly Awarded NSF Fellowship

Hannah Wilkins Wins Poster Award

The Freeman Lab is thrilled to announce that our own Hannah Wilkins, a junior at the University of North Carolina in the Chancellor’s Science scholar program, has won the 3rd Place Overall Poster Award at this year’s Summer Undergraduate Program Symposium. UNC’s Summer Undergraduate Program is an opportunity for minority scholars to get a taste… Continue reading Hannah Wilkins Wins Poster Award

Freeman Lab Cover Art Published in Bioconjugate Chemistry

This month’s issue of Bioconjugate Chemistry has been published, and features cover art by Freeman Lab alumnus Griffin Miller. The artwork (above) depicts DNA-containing peptides organizing into twisted bundles of fibers, which mimic biological assemblies. This cover accompanies Dr. Ronit Freeman’s paper, also published in this July issue, titled “Encoding Reversible Hierarchical Structures with Supramolecular Peptide-DNA Materials.”  More information on this… Continue reading Freeman Lab Cover Art Published in Bioconjugate Chemistry