In addition to exploring using mucus to stop pathogens, Lai will help develop a curriculum to teach middle and high school students about the health benefits of mucus.

Avinash Patil, MD, is one of the first fellows in a clinical pharmacology training program born of a collaboration between UNC and Duke. The program, which will expand to a nine fellows this summer, prepares clinician-scientists to become leaders and addresses critical problems in clinical pharmacology. Five positions in the expanded program will be NIH funded.

The 2012 Academic Unit University Diversity Award recognizes the School's efforts to advance diversity, which include a number of initiatives such as the LEAD program that introduce students from all backgrounds to the profession of pharmacy.

It is the sixth consecutive year that the School has received the scholarship, which is designed to help enhance the recipients' skills and commitment to a career in academic pharmacy.

Jasmine Talameh, PharmD, pictured here with her adviser Herb Patterson, PharmD, is the 2012 recipient of the Graduate School's Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service. Hadzija was a long-time member of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy faculty.