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Entwisle Leaving Research Position

Barbara Entwisle has decided to step down as vice chancellor for research at the end of the current academic year and return to teaching in the sociology department, where she is a Kenan distinguished professor.

Entwisle has been on the faculty for 30 years, and has received numerous awards for mentoring and teaching. She held the research position for five years, and she served for eight years as director of the Carolina Population Center.

During her term in the research position, UNC joined the ranks of the nation’s top 10 research universities. She recently established an Office of Industry Contracting to support businesses investing in UNC research, and she has made important investments in UNC’s Office of Clinical Trials, put the Office of Technology Development on a sustainable path, and led a transformation of the Office of Sponsored Research.

The pan-university centers Entwisle oversees attract nearly eight dollars in external funding for each dollar of state funds they receive. Last year they experienced their best year ever, administering $167 million in new research awards — 21 percent of all awards Carolina received.

A search process to identify candidates for the vice chancellorship is expected to begin soon.

 

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