Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Interdisciplinary neuroscience major launches in fall 2018

A student sits with a clear plastic-type showercap on his head in the neuroscience class of Marsha Penner. Another student is using a magic marker to make marks on the cap.

The College of Arts & Sciences is launching a new interdisciplinary major in neuroscience, drawing on the strengths of 10 academic departments —biology, biomedical engineering, biostatistics, chemistry, computer science, exercise and sport science, mathematics, physics and astronomy, psychology and neuroscience, and statistics and operations research.

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Supercomputers give scientists key insight into the lifetime of neutrons

Amy Nicholson (photo by Jon Gardiner)

Using the largest supercomputers in the country, scientists have reached a milestone decades in the making. The team, which includes a researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has calculated the axial coupling of the neutron, an important process in nuclear physics that governs nuclear beta decay.

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Inventor of the Year: Mark Schoenfisch makes NO the optimistic answer

Mark Schoenfisch UNC's Inventor of the Year speaks at awards celebration with podium and balloons in background.

While receiving the 2018 UNC-Chapel Hill Inventor of the Year award, Mark Schoenfisch, professor of chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences, discussed his decades-long research of the molecule nitric oxide. Schoenfisch has a record of bringing his research to market, where it has the potential to improve the lives of patients through medical devices, pharmaceutics and drug development.

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