CHAPEL HILL (October 23, 2024) – We all wonder how artificial intelligence will affect our lives. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts wonders how it will affect the life of the university. Of four working groups Roberts appointed as interim chancellor last spring, the report from the working group on Generative AI is necessarily the… READ MORE
READDI – or not? – for the next pandemic
CHAPEL HILL (September 28, 2023) – Many of us don’t worry much about Covid-19 these days, despite a recent uptick in infections. But researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are already preparing for the next viral pandemic.1 “It’s a question of when – not if,” Dr. Nat Moorman, co-founder of the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative… READ MORE
“We need to find a solution”: The impact of ECU research
By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University appears to be able to stop some melanoma cells from growing and to… READ MORE
Suzanne Barbour: Science is a team sport
Each fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role of public universities. This year, he teaches with Matt Springer and Buck Goldstein from the School of Education and Dean Suzanne Barbour of the Graduate… READ MORE
RTI Forethought: Get READDI for the next pandemic
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (November 11, 2021) – As we struggle to emerge from one pandemic, RTI International is putting at least $5 million into an effort with researchers from four Triangle universities to confront the next one. As part of its Forethought Research Collaboration Challenge, the nonprofit research institute RTI challenged researchers last spring to… READ MORE
Caudill: If ever basic research mattered…
By W. Lowry Caudill CHAPEL HILL – We need an answer for coronavirus in a hurry. Scientific research generally doesn’t happen in a hurry. So thank goodness for the work Dr. Ralph Baric has done for the past six years in a secret lab at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Baric and… READ MORE
2019: The turmoil continues
Turmoil continued through 2019 among the leadership of individual UNC campuses and the UNC System itself. A new state budget for 2019-21 still hasn’t been adopted; raises for K-12 teachers and higher education faculty are still on hold. And the fate of a statue continued to divert energy from the university’s more noble pursuits. Yet… READ MORE
Universities can learn something from sweet potatoes
By Leslie BoneyNC State University LUCAMA – It was a strange group of visitors looking down on the sweet potato processing line at Scott Farms one day last month. As they listened to a plant manager talk about everything from planting to shipping, a nuclear engineer stood next to a graphic designer, a women’s studies… READ MORE
Low stone walls at Carolina
CHAPEL HILL – When Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz looks at the stone walls that surround UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, he doesn’t see barriers. He sees something easy to climb. Sure, there are distinct disciplines at Carolina. But in those low stone walls, Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video, he also sees a symbol of the… READ MORE
RTI’s research impact
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Together, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, Duke University and RTI International do $3.5 billion worth of research every year. “The opportunity that’s available to the four entities is to come together, to work collaboratively, and to try to attack really big problems in the world,” Wayne Holden, RTI International’s President and… READ MORE