UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt announced today that Dr. Terry Magnuson, UNC Lineberger member, Sarah Graham Kenan professor and founding chair of the department of genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed as the vice chancellor for research.
Dr. Terry Magnuson, UNC Lineberger member, Sarah Graham Kenan professor and founding chair of the department of genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed as the vice chancellor for research. The University appointment, effective July 1, was approved by the University’s Board of Trustees.
“Dr. Magnuson is a national leader in his field and one of our deeply trusted colleagues,” said UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt. “We are so honored that he will guide the basic curiosity, passion and creativity inherent in our faculty and students to help unleash the innovation potential of this great University.”
As vice chancellor, Magnuson will lead a campus-wide research program that has attracted nearly $1 billion in contract and grant funding in fiscal 2014. Helping spur that growth are investments and policy decisions made by the North Carolina General Assembly that have helped finance major initiatives, including the Marsico Hall Research Laboratories, the Genome Sciences Building and the University Cancer Research Fund.
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