UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt, an internationally recognized environmental scientist, will deliver the lecture “Water in Our World: Past Is Present, Future Is Fragile, But We Can Make a Difference” at 5:30 p.m. on April 23 at the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in the FedEx Global Education Center.
Chancellor Folt to deliver lecture on water research April 23 Read More »
Clean drinking water initiatives, cancer research programs and domestic violence prevention are some of the projects recognized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2015 Public Service Awards.
UNC honors 15 individuals and groups for public service Read More »
On April 15, the research journey came at least one step closer to the end for more than 200 UNC undergraduates who put the final product of their research on full display at the 16th annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union.
Research journeys on display Read More »
Industries have pursued technologies that minimize the energy and resources necessary to make products in order to lower costs and fulfill consumer demand for “greener” manufacturing.
Chemistry doctoral student Sara Turner is working to bring North Carolina to the forefront of this growing industry.
GEAB Impact Award winner helps N.C. manufacturers “go green” Read More »
A 3D printer is the first to use light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid, reimagining a technology that could bring 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing.
Researchers collaborate to develop revolutionary 3D print technology Read More »
Researchers identify unexpected activity of antibiotics, potentially reshaping our understanding of why antibiotics evolved and pointing to broad health implications.
Antibiotics give rise to new communities of harmful bacteria Read More »
James F. Cahoon is among 126 scholars being awarded the 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship. This is the second prestigious award given to early-career scientists that Cahoon has received in recent months. Last October, he was awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering,
Hitting a double: Cahoon scores two prestigious honors Read More »
Sarah Cooley, a senior Morehead-Cain Scholar and geological sciences major and mathematics minor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a recipient of the 2015 Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Sarah Cooley earns prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship Read More »
UNC scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the histone code. This research tool can be used to better understand the function of histone proteins, which play critical roles in the regulation of gene expression in animals and plants.
A first of its kind tool to study the histone code Read More »
The moment of birth marks the beginning of a beautiful, lifelong relationship between a baby and the billions of microbes that will soon colonize his or her gastrointestinal tract. In a study published today in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, researchers from UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and the UNC School of Medicine
Another breastfeeding benefit: preparing baby’s belly for solid food Read More »
