Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Room 208 in Phillips Hall is no longer an ordinary teaching laboratory. Gone are the cramped aisles with chairs and tables configured in a traditional manner. Instead, students sit at large round tables for labs.

Pitchers get hurt. That’s a fact of baseball. And anyone who’s played the game has an opinion about why: the pitching motion is unnatural, curveballs and split-finger fastballs ruin elbows, pitch counts are too high, some pitchers aren’t built to last. Three UNC researchers were a little more scientific about it. They surveyed thousands of

The American Society of Plant Biologists (APSB) has honored Alan Jones with one of four ASPB Education Foundation Award Grants for Plant Science Outreach. Jones, the George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, will use the grant to develop a resource for elementary and secondary school students, with Jane Ellis of Presbyterian College.

UNC College of Arts and Sciences scientist and entrepreneur Joseph DeSimone has been invited to join an elite list of speakers at this year’s TEDMED Conference in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 25 – 28. DeSimone’s presentation, “Can Nanotechnology Deliver Mega Results?”will explore the latest advancements in nanomedicine, including PRINT technology, a technique invented in his

Say you’ve been scooped up and tossed four hundred million years back in time, back when the planet’s landmasses are still huddled together and the deep, colossal ocean Panthalassa covers most of the globe. The Earth you’ve landed on is laboring through its Devonian Period, a stretch of history famous for its huge armored fishes, wandering tectonic plates, and plummeting levels of carbon dioxide. You’re probably uncomfortably warm and the air probably stinks of iron sulfide.

A scientist who specializes in “climate fingerprint” studies — seeking to understand the nature and causes of climate change — will give two free talks Oct. 27 and 28 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Benjamin D. Santer, a climate scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, comes to campus

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill computer scientist has been inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. Research professor Diane Pozefsky is one of five new inductees into the Hall of Fame, which was established in 1996 to recognize, honor and promote the outstanding contributions women make to scientific and

A new scientific instrument will enable University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers to analyze everything from corals and rocks to human teeth and the blood of mosquitoes. The National Science Foundation’s major research instrumentation program has granted UNC $410,000 to acquire a device called an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. It features a

A sport administration class taught by Richard Southall, associate professor of exercise and sport science, has a unique partnership with the Carolina RailHawks, a professional soccer team based in Cary. Currently in its second year, the partnership provides real-life work experience for UNC students. Students in Southall’s sales and revenue production class apply their classroom