This is accessible 24/7, but you might want to wait until evenings or weekends for muggle factor and parking. This is the tallest building on the UNC campus at 11 floors.
West Drive is currently closed to vehicles so there is no close by parking on weekdays!!!
Press Release April 18, 1997 -- No.268,
Ceremony to mark renaming building for Dr. Mary Ellen Jones
By MELISSA ANTHONY
UNC Medical Center Public Relations and Marketing
CHAPEL HILL -- Faculty, administrators and employees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine will gather Wednesday (April 23) at 10 a.m. to dedicate the Mary Ellen Jones Building, the second building on campus named after a woman.
The ceremony is free and open to the public. The 11-story research building, formerly known as the Faculty Laboratory Office Building, will become the namesake of the late Jones, a nationally recognized biochemist who was the first female chair of a medical school department and the first woman to hold a Kenan professorship at Carolina.
"Mary Ellen was a paragon whose personal and scientific leadership shaped much of the basic research education at this institution,"; said Dr. Stuart Bondurant, interim dean of the medical school. “By naming this building after her, we recognize her stellar contributions as a scientist, humanist, and warrior in the struggle for gender equality in science.”
Jones taught at UNC-CH from 1966 to 1971. In 1978, she returned to the university to chair the Department of Biochemistry and nutrition, overseeing its eventual transition to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Although she stepped down as head in 1989, Jones continued to teach and conduct research until her retirement in 1995. She died of cancer in 1996.
Jones made major discoveries concerning how cells make some of the building blocks of DNA. She received national recognition for her research when she was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1981, the National Academy of Sciences in 1984 and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. Also known as a tireless advocate for advancing careers of women in science, Jones was honored by the university's Association of Women Faculty with the Mary Turner Lane Award in 1987. The Jones building currently houses three School of Medicine departments: Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology and Biochemistry, and Biophysics. The building is located on the corner of Manning Drive and West Drive, adjacent to the Health Affairs parking deck.
A little simple online research is needed before you come here. What was her year of birth.. PLUS THREE?
