Lookout Scholars Program provides new resources to first-generation students

/ A&S Foundation

At Carolina, approximately 20 percent of undergraduates are first-generation college students. Those students are twice as likely as other students to leave college before the start of their second year. Sunny and Lee Burrows hope to change that. The couple recently established the Lookout Scholars First-Generation Students Fund to create a learning community that will […]

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Willis’ research focuses on port planning for climate change

/ Global Programs, News

Rachel Willis is a professor of American studies, global studies, and economics within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on how sea-level rise, drought, and increased storm severity threaten port communities, influence migration, alter global food sheds, and impact future access to work through complex water connections related to infrastructure for global freight transportation.

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UNC professor receives national honor for ACL research, prevention

/ Natural Sciences & Mathematics, News

Darin A. Padua, professor and chair of the department of exercise and sport science in UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences and co-director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory, was honored with the Medal for Distinguished Athletic Training Research. This is the highest form of recognition for research in this field.

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Disruptive Driving

/ News, Social Sciences

What if we could eliminate all car accidents caused by human error? That is one of the main arguments made by proponents of autonomous vehicles — safety. Our country, and the world, is on the cusp of a revolution in transportation technology and infrastructure. While industries are focused on perfecting the technology, and consumers are skeptical about trusting it, researchers face a blank page — there is no pre-existing data.

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The writer’s life is Daniel Wallace’s own ‘extraordinary adventure’

/ Fine Arts & Humanities, News, Undergraduate Education

Daniel Wallace calls his new book, Extraordinary Adventures (St. Martin’s Press), his most autobiographical work yet. Set in Wallace’s hometown of Birmingham, Ala., the book features the journey of Edsel Bronfman — yes, that’s Edsel as in the late 1950s Ford car that became a commercial failure — and his quest to open himself up to life and to love.

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NFL grant funds international research on the role of active rehabilitation strategies in concussion management

/ Global Programs, Natural Sciences & Mathematics, News

The NFL will fund a $2.6 million international study on the role of active rehabilitation strategies in concussion management, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

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Tree-ring records reveal storm track changes over hundreds of years

/ Natural Sciences & Mathematics, News, Social Sciences

In a new study published in Science Advances, Erika Wise, associate professor of geography in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Matthew Dannenberg used climate information recorded by Ponderosa pine trees in the U.S. Pacific Northwest to reconstruct storm track position and intensity over the past three centuries.

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