Two UNC doctoral students have won second place in the NSF’s Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge for presenting the Duke/UNC Scientists with Stories Project as a model of incorporating narrative-based science communication training into graduate education.
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Undergraduate researcher Coertney Scoggin is trying to answer the question: Is it possible to prevent a painful condition like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Undergraduate research: Preventing PTSD Read More »
Undergraduate researcher Ann Soltan (environmental studies, American studies ’13) wants to put solar energy to work on California dairy farms while saving farmers a bit of cash.
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Work entirely designed, implemented, and interpreted by UNC undergraduates has been published in Biochemistry and is highlighted on the journal web page.
Undergraduates publish in journal Biochemistry Read More »
Geography graduate student Jon Duncan was awarded the first Keohane Professional Graduate Student Award for his research in hydrology.
Graduate student wins first Keohane Student Award for hydrology research Read More »
Three UNC College of Arts and Sciences faculty members received mentoring awards from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council May 10 at a Campus Y ceremony.
Carolina Women’s Leadership Council honors three UNC faculty for mentoring Read More »
UNC senior Anastasia Elise Bury of South Haven, Mich., has received a David L. Boren Scholarship through the National Security Education Program to benefit U.S. intelligence efforts. For 12 months, Bury will study abroad in Tajikistan where she will learn Tajik, a dialect of modern Persian that is unknown to many because it’s spoken in few parts of the world.
UNC senior awarded 2013 Boren Scholarship to aid national security Read More »
Ivan Cherednik, a mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the recipient of a 2013 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics.
Cherednik named Simons Fellow in Mathematics Read More »
UNC psychologist and linguist Jennifer Arnold found that our conversational missteps, like saying “uh” and “um,” sometimes actually help our listeners get what we’re saying.
How our conversational “mistakes” may help us get our point across Read More »
Kerry Steven Bloom, Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of biology in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.
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