| June 25, 2009 A Feature Article by Pavel. Zhuravlev, Chris Materese and Garyk Papoian, on energy landscapes view of protein dynamics, appeared on the cover page of July 2 2009 issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. |
| May 5, 2009 Ryan Vary, an incoming graduate student, was awarded a Venable Fellowship for summer research in the Papoian lab. |
| April 3, 2009 Greg Rubinstein, an undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology, received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to carry out summer research in Papoian Lab. |
January 31, 2009 Garegin Papoian received NSF CAREER award, for five years, to develop physico-chemical models of the way actin polymerization processes drive movement of eukaryotic cells. |
| August 5, 2008 A manuscript by C. K. Materese, C. C. Goldmon and G. A. Papoian was accompanied by V. Lubchenko's Commentary and highlighted on the Cover of August 5th issue of PNAS. |
| July 25, 2008 Alexey Savelyev was selected to receive the UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence for the 2008-2009 academic year. |
| July 17, 2008 Christopher Materese was selected as a Chemistry Department GAANN fellow (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) for the 2008/09 academic year. |
| April 28, 2008 Dr. Garegin A. Papoian received Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation. |
| April 10, 2007 The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation named Dr. Garegin A. Papoian among 2007 Beckman Young Investigators Award recepients. More details... |
| April 7, 2006 Sean Walder was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), which is funded by the Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation. |
| April
3, 2006 North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) awarded a two-year seed grant to fund an interdisciplinary group of researchers at UNC, including Papoian laboratory, to study chromatin structure and function with novel approaches. More details... |
| January 2, 2005 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provided support for our efforts in signal transduction modeling through the R. J. Reynolds Excellence Junior Faculty Development Award. |
| July 20, 2004 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation provided support for our efforts in protein biophysics through the New Faculty Award. More details... |