Making A Home

Published on June 15, 2018

“I remember a time coming to the United States from Uruguay, and I felt I was coming back home and not away from home.”

Edward Bahnson, an assistant professor in UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, has lived in the U.S. for 15 years. When he found out that his academic home, which he said “has been so welcoming and supportive of [his] professional development,” would host his naturalization ceremony he was even more overyjoyed.

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