TISLab Trainee Hub

General questions

• Cara Marlow: cara_marlow@med.unc.edu 

HR (including documentation, visas)

• Sam Robinson: sam_robinson@med.unc.edu 

Student support

• John Cornett: jcornett@email.unc.edu 

Travel, Concur or purchasing

• Mike Hariss: tharriss@email.unc.edu 

Grant Admin including Potential funding opportunities and project ideas

• Sarah Schoenrock: sarah_schoenrock@med.unc.edu 

Science, funding and mentorship

• Melissa Haendel: melissa@tislab.org 

• Julie McMurry: julie@tislab.org 

Your go-to for TISLab related questions. If they don't know the answer, they will help you fine one. 👍

• Sarah Gehrke: sarah@tislab.org  

Join the TISLab Slack trainee channel! #tislab-trainees

Create an ONYEN, UNC email, and sign up for ConnectCarolina: 

• For these resources, follow the emails that you get from the Graduate School once admitted.

Canvas 

• set up Canvas for classes and notes. Most classes have their resources on Canvas. You can also find your calendar on Canvas with all the events you've signed up for. 

UNC Course Catalog 

• Used to filter out courses offered by the several UNC schools or to find out the course code for the class you are looking for. Please note: This is only a catalog to give you an idea/overview of the courses offered. The registration for the courses is only done on ConnectCarolina. This catalog comes in handy especially when new students struggle with the UI of ConnectCarolina to search for classes. 

Graduate School Policies

• This is where you can find the Graduate school handbook (which is the holy grail for everything in grad school). Based on the program, departments have their own handbook to follow as well. 

• General thumb rule - Graduate school handbook trumps all (unless specified by your program). The Grad school policy page is also the perfect source to understand student resources, benefits, NC residency waiver, enrollment policies, classes add/drop dates, UNC ethics and policy, HR resources (1-9 eligibility for international students), financial resources, and general policies related to campus life, travel, teaching, etc. The information keeps updating, so please check back again if needed. 

International Students and Scholars Services Portal

• Login with ONYEN. This is the best place to look for any policies, conducts, rules, regulations, and any documents relating to international students. This would be the one-stop source for every international student. 

• Be on the lookout for emails from ISSS as soon as you get admited and create a UNC email. Everything from i20 documents to immunizations, OPT/CPT workshops and seminars, documents during border entry, and check-in after you are here will be handled by ISSS. 

Student Employment at UNC Policy

• Resource for everything relating to employment as a grad student on campus. This also includes benefits, leave policies, etc. 

Academic calendar

• For holidays and leave, and semester start and end dates, etc. Keeps updating, so make sure to recheck the site. 

UNC events 

• Such as registering for workshops, seminars, talks, etc that are happening on campus. Some of these will be virtual or hybrid. Seats are usually limited for most of these events, especially the in-person ones, so registration beforehand is important. 

• Most of the events are offered for free for grad students and staff, some may have prerequisites that you need to know before you take them. Sign in through ONYEN to register.

Carolina Hub Print Portal

• To take a print out or scan any document. Prints can be taken at any library. Fee would be deducted from the default $40 in your UNC One card every semester. 

Campus Health Portal 

• Patient Portal for all services through Campus Health Services. This is only for grad students and staff and not for their dependents. 

• For those who have UNC Gship or RA/TA or UNC Student Blue insurance. 

• Other insurances are also accepted at Campus Health as long as you are a student or employee at UNC.

UNC Student Dental Clinic 

• UNC Graduate student insurance does not cover dental care. The school of dentistry has a free student run clinic graduate students are able to attend.

Carolina Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine 

• This is a journal run by students in the school of medicine where submitted manuscripts go through a blinded peer-review process. Accepted manuscripts are indexed in google scholar.

Office of Postdoctoral Affairs: https://research.unc.edu/postdocs/

UNC Postdoc Association: https://research.unc.edu/pda/ 

UNC Postdoc Slack: http://uncpostdocs.slack.com 

To receive campus-wide announcements about events, news, and information relevant to the postdoctoral community send a request to opa@unc.edu with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line to join the UNC Postdoc listserv.