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.
UNC Research: Improvements for nonflammable lithium-ion batteries Read More »
The College of Arts and Sciences wishes you a season full of joy, warmth and peace.
Happy Holidays from UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences Read More »
The boom in augmented reality technology could provide easy, 3-D access to friends and family across the globe.
The New Social Network Read More »
Ashley Thrower came to Carolina for one reason: to get a college degree and become a physician. Even when she gave birth to her daughter Ava in 2014, Thrower never strayed away from that goal.
December graduate: ‘Failure wasn’t an option’ Read More »
Theorists, experimentalists, and computational scientists will come together to answer grand challenge physics questions at UNC-Chapel Hill’s new CoSMS Institute.
Breaking the Silos Read More »
Two College of Arts and Sciences professors — Richard “Pete” Andrews and J. Steven Reznick — have been inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. The honor, created in 1963, is among the most prestigious awards presented by the governor of North Carolina for extraordinary public service to the state. Andrews received the
Andrews, Reznick awarded Order of Long Leaf Pine for service to state Read More »
The UNC Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab won the top prize, the Milton van Dyke Award, a coveted poster award at the 68th annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics.
UNC Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab wins top prize Read More »
The Chancellor’s Science Scholars program encourages talented students who are dedicated to advancing diversity in the sciences to pursue Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. degrees in science or mathematics.
James Williams, a fourth-year student at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been named a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, a graduate studies scholarship to study at a United Kingdom institution in any field of study.
Williams is UNC’s 17th Marshall Scholar, will study for two years in the United Kingdom Read More »
UNC biologists have sequenced the genome of the nearly indestructible tardigrade and found that they get a huge chunk of their genome – nearly one-sixth or 17.5 percent – from foreign DNA.
A huge chunk of a tardigrade’s genome comes from foreign DNA Read More »
