Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Concussion care on the front lines

A researcher at the Gfeller Center places dark glasses on a study participant.

A current multidisciplinary initiative led by Carolina’s Jason Mihalik is tracking neurological function in elite warfighters. In August 2008, high school athlete Matthew Gfeller sustained a fatal traumatic brain injury during his first varsity football game. One year later, Matthew’s family and friends turned their grief into hope by funding the creation of the Matthew

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Grant will help researchers examine how to use voice assistant devices in post-treatment cancer care

beautiful campus shot of the Old Well in the fall, with the fall trees changing colors in the background.

A multidisciplinary team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers received a grant to support research on how to monitor and provide feedback to post-treatment cancer patients, using a combination of radio and audio sensing technologies.

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KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half; UNC is part of international collaboration

In this 2010 image, members of the KATRIN experiment pose in front of the spectrometer after it was installed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. (photo by Joachim Wolf/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. The KATRIN experiment is based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and involves international collaborators including UNC-Chapel Hill.

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