Thursday, June 26, 2008

Nobel Winner

The Senate adopted a resolution Wednesday honoring Oliver Smithies, the first Nobel Prize winner on the full-time faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Last fall, Smithies and two others received the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work creating a technique to manipulate genes in mice. Smithies has been a professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill medical school since 1988. The British native, who was escorted to the Senate floor for the reading of the resolution, said he's enjoyed his time in North Carolina. Joining Smithies on the floor was UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser, who is stepping down from the post next week. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 6/25/08).

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