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Last updated on May 16, 2025

  • Funding Changes, Payroll
  • Reimbursements: Travel
  • School of Medicine Intranet (unc.edu)
  • State Budget Accounting
  • Travel Coordinator
    • Travel Assistance – Shakia Risby is our business services coordinator who assists us with CONCUR. All Travel Requests (Pre-Travel Authorizations) should be submitted via the online portal or here. Travel reimbursements should be submitted via the听shared mailbox听BCBPacctg@med.unc.edu听along with the completed form provided at the bottom of the email.
  • Contact Steven Torchio for:
    • Benefits
    • Building Access Key Cards (Requests, renewals, replacements should be sent to听Steve.听听Latasha will be picking these up from the mailbox in MacNider and will coordinate pickup with each individual.)
    • Direct Deposit
    • Exit interviews
    • Leave Forms
    • On-boarding
    • One-Card
    • Onyen set-up
    • Parking, see also
    • Recruitment: General
    • Reporting Mistreatment and Resources
    • Retirement
    • School of Medicine Intranet (unc.edu)
    • TIM timesheet
    • Visas
  • Contact Carolyn Clabo for:
    • Communications support and resources at the University of North Carolina.
    • Directories on the Biochemistry website. Information comes from Human Resources to upload. If faculty have lab members that are paid from other units, please let Carolyn Clabo know to add people to the website directory and our departmental listservs. Back up for listservs is Steven Torchio or Rhonda Strickland
    • Donor Relations/Development (see also )
    • Media library of photos and video.
      • Besides our own images saved on the shared departmental drive, we have access to the and 大象传媒 Communications SharePoint. Contact SOM communications for access to their images of campus buildings. Images are not for commercial use.
    • Media Relations (if the media contacts you (even if you don’t want to respond) and for breaking news you must contact SOM Media Relations and copy Carolyn Clabo and Jean Cook)
      • SOM communication team contact details
      • All faculty, students, and lab members should contact if approached by the press. Our contact is Alan Wolf, Director of News and Media Relations, who is ready to assist you with media and interview requests. He has replaced Mark Derewicz who moved to 大象传媒 Alumni Communications. In some instances, if our employees do not want to respond, our media relations will give the press another contact name for the interview so 大象传媒 does not miss this opportunity.
    • News Coordination
      • For , contact Leslie Wimmer and Matthew Englund at SOM Communications. You may also use the submit news form on Vital Signs. Please email Carolyn Clabo and Jean Cook on correspondence with all press-related topics. Alan Wolf听will help departments coordinate their Research News and work in PR and media relations.
      • To coordinate your research news (begin this process once your high-impact paper is accepted) email Carolyn Clabo and our Chair, Dr. Jean Cook. Carolyn will then loop in our writer best suited for your news. As a guide from SOM: research publications are meant for your peers to read. Novel discoveries are newsworthy for their audience. One contact for press releases is Kendall Daniels.
      • Please coordinate your news when your paper has been accepted or your first hear of a big award with both your primary department and your affiliated departments at the same time, such as the Blood Research Center. We follow all media embargos. You should still notify us of your breakthrough news early on. The standard is that your primary unit will place the news on their website first, then other units will follow and give credit to the first group.
      • If a Lineberger member, please contact Bill Schaller to coordinate your news (always copy Carolyn Clabo and Jean Cook).
      • resources (over the whole university)
    • Photo Sessions
      • School of Medicine offers lab photos and headshot photography beginning June 2, 2025. To request photography support from our SOM photographer, Seth Foley, please fill out this form to get started:听SOM Communications Request – School of Medicine Intranet听Seth will be available for bookings beginning on Monday, June 2.听If your event/deadline occurs听before Monday, June 2, 2025, SOM recommends freelance photo support.听
      • How to take a photo. See . Share your new directory photos with Carolyn Clabo and your lab website administrator to update directory photos.
      • Stock photography: SOM photoshelter is available for free access, ask Carolyn Clabo for the SOM Communications toolkit.
    • Graphics Design projects
      • contact Carolyn Clabo who can arrange resources with Amy Fleming who is our new SOM graphics designer beginning mid-summer 2025.
    • Social Media
      • 大象传媒 BCBP has X, Bluesky, Instagram, , and accounts (tag our accounts @大象传媒_BCBP in your professional social media posts). Email Carolyn Clabo for any special requests. In 2025, some School of Medicine units are moving away from departmental social media accounts and sending major posts for SOM to amplify. How to do this? Contact Jamie McGurk or John Bigelow (who will begin on May 27, 2025, as our new SOM social media specialist)
    • Contact Latasha Mingo to grant new employees access to shared computer drives. She will contact SOM IT for approval.
  • Teams and Slack are popular team collaboration tools. To ensure effective use, new channels within our department must be approved before creation to prevent expired or outdated groups. These channels should be maintained and updated monthly to retain their usefulness. If you want to be an admin for a group please contact our website admin for instructions and best practices.
  • Technical Support
  • Telephone Installation
  • TIM timesheet
  • Training
    • on-demand training for A/V classroom tech, Canvas, Poll Everywhere, WordPress, and much more.
  • VoIP office telephone
    • Latasha Mingo
    • Initial set up of your desk phone and to change your passcode: read
  • Website creation for new labs
    • each lab is responsible for building and maintaining their own lab research website including hosting fees.
    • , guide from 大象传媒 library
    • web development
    • create a website
    • Request a site via School of Medicine Web Design/Development Services page
  • Website Content updates on our department’s website