As part of the Oct. 12 University Day ceremony to install Carol L. Folt as the 11th chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, five Carolina alumni will receive Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Awards. Many of the alums have ties to the College.
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Darin Padua, professor and chair of the department of exercise and sport science, is one of 11 new inductees into the National Academy of Kinesiology.
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UNC’s Jon Abramowitz, a psychology professor and director of the OCD/Anxiety Disorders Clinic, will be one of the panelists at a free event Oct. 17: “Understanding and Getting Help for OCD: An Evening with Experts.” The 6:30 p.m. panel discussion will be held at Cameron Village Library, Room 202, 1930 Clarke Ave., Raleigh. The event
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A little more than 40 years ago, Linda Dykstra and her husband, Bill Hylander, were driving from Chicago toward new careers at Carolina and Duke when they drove through the place they would return for their careers’ end.
Active research and student support mark Dykstra’s four decades on Carolina’s faculty Read More »
In introductory geology, Kevin Stewart tells his students that we know more about the things millions of miles above our heads than a mile below our feet.
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A $499,340 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will enhance the teaching of undergraduate physics courses.
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A new $4.47 million project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, will help lay the groundwork for developing potentially better ways to deliver antidotes against exposure to chemical weapons.
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Three UNC archaeology alums have unearthed the earliest European settlement in the interior United States near Morganton, N.C.
Exploring Joara: Excavating the past, shaping the future in western N.C. Read More »
Four highly promising faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, an honor that recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty. Two of the faculty members are in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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UNC received a $2 million award from a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the use of nanopore technology aimed at more accurate and efficient DNA sequencing.
$2 million award to focus on nanopore technology for DNA sequencing Read More »
