Chemist Joseph DeSimone will receive a National Medal of Technology and Innovation — among the nation’s highest honors for advancing innovation in science. The award will be presented at the White House early next year.
Joseph DeSimone from UNC’s College of and Sciences and Nitash Balsara from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made their nonflammable lithium-ion battery prototype even better, replacing the liquid electrolyte with a liquid-solid hybrid that makes the battery more conductive and more resistant to damage.
The College of Arts and Sciences wishes you a season full of joy, warmth and peace.
About 20 students with majors including biology, Russian languages and studio art recently came together to build a telescope in the new makerspace in the basement of Hanes Art Center.
English professor Connie Eble received the 2016 Mary Turner Lane Award.
Jennifer Ho, associate professor and director of graduate studies for the department of English and comparative literature, will become the associate director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
The event, sponsored by Carolina’s department of communication and partners, features three performances by local playwrights inspired by military veterans and their families.
The play, which runs Jan. 6-10, spins a true tale of tangled history, family politics and land rights in a high desert New Mexico town.
A year-long project at UNC-Chapel Hill, “Telling our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African-Diaspora Communities,” has been awarded a Humanities in the Public Square grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon, December Commencement speaker Kelly Hogan began her talk unlike most people at a podium. Instead of requesting her audience to put away their smartphones, she asked the crowd to keep their phones out and within reach.
