About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE) SPIRE’s Mission: 1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 2) To promote … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill’s SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hosted noted neurobiologist Dr. Erich D. Jarvis on Friday, June 9 as the keynote speaker for the annual SPIRE Research Symposium. Currently in its seventh year, the event highlights the research accomplishments of SPIRE Scholars through … Read more
Fellows from the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted Dr. Joseph C. Dunbar, professor and chairman of the department of physiology of Wayne State University on Oct. 28, 2005. This was the … Read more
Dr. Mark Forsyth Microbial Genetic Diversity and Signal Transduction as Undergraduate Research/Teaching Tools WHEN:Friday, April 24, 2009, 11AM WHERE: UNC Chapel Hill Fellows from the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted Dr. … Read more
Whitney Edwards, Ph.D. (4th year SPIRE scholar, Dr. Frank Conlon’s lab) – received a fellowship from the American Heart Association to fund her work titled TBX20/TLE Interaction Is Essential For Mammalian Heart Development Ashalla Freeman, Ph.D. (Director, Graduate Education, UNC … Read more
Stipends and Benefits Fellowship stipends will be competitive with federal guidelines as set by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with annual increases as allowed by these guidelines. Health insurance will also be provided. If funds are available, additional support … Read more
What is the SPIRE program? UNC-Chapel Hill’s Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education program is an innovative postdoctoral fellowship program for Ph.D. scientists who are interested in balancing research and teaching careers. SPIRE’s mission is to provide multi-dimensional professional … Read more
The Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (SPIRE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was one of the first grantees to receive funding in 1999 from the special Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) program, which is now part of … Read more
