University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Arcot Rajasekar will lead one of eight research teams that have won a Big Data grant – a new federal funding initiative that aims to improve the tools and techniques needed to … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rose to ninth from 16th among leading private and public research universities for the level of federal funding ($545.99 million) devoted to research and development in all fields during fiscal 2010.
With each breath, we inhale life-sustaining, oxygen-rich air. But that same air is also riddled with germs that threaten our health. Now, in collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine, scientists at the University … Read more
RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been tapped as the technical lead in a $4.5 million collaborative water project by the National Science Foundation. The project, which involves a team that … Read more
The Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host an electricity and renewable energy workshop for middle and high school science teachers to provide hands-on learning strategies that promote energy literacy in classrooms.
Marine scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have linked the decline in growth of Caribbean forereef corals — due to recent warming — to long-term trends in seawater temperature experienced by these corals located on the … Read more
A new rapid DNA-based test for water quality developed and patented by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member is being used by the city of Racine, Wis., to test Great Lakes water samples this beach season.
Dr. Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that a U.S. scientist or engineer can receive.
Thomas J. Meyer, a chemist and pioneer in solar energy research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will receive the Porter Medal, a photochemistry award, at a symposium on July 15-20.
Jamie Bartram, Ph.D., professor of environmental sciences and engineering and director of the Water Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been named to the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine.