Edgar Lobaton and Alper Bozkurt, associate professors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are working to improve wearable health-monitoring devices, on a research project that could lead to people being able to detect an asthma attack sooner. Lobaton, along with two UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, will receive $1 million from the National Science Foundation …
UNCSA has awarded two new endowed professorships in piano – the Clifton Matthews Distinguished Professorship to Dmitri Shteinberg and the Eric Larsen Distinguished Professorship to Dmitri Vorobiev – that will help to ensure that top faculty members continue to thrive in the School of Music. The professorships — both named for retired piano faculty — …
A UNCW clinic is providing affordable mental health and testing services to residents of the Cape Fear region. The $20 sessions are conducted by UNCW psychology doctoral student clinicians under the supervision of licensed faculty in the Department of Psychology. The nonprofit General Psychotherapy and Assessment Clinic offers services to clients ages 7 and older …
CHAPEL HILL, NC – University of North Carolina Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey today issued the following statement on the resignation of Board member Harry Smith: ‘Harry Smith has given notice of his resignation from the Board of Governors and he has indicated he is willing to serve up to an additional 90 days …
The first year of a student’s college experience is often the most exciting – new freedom, new friends, and new opportunities. But there are challenges, too. College is an adjustment. Often, if students don’t develop time management, organizational, and study skills, they may struggle. To help students better transition to academic life here on campus, …
On a mission for innovation and translational science, Rahima Benhabbour is using 3D-printing technology and her startup company AnelleO to create a breakthrough in women’s health. Rahima Benhabbour has always been an advocate for women’s health issues. As an assistant professor in the UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and an adjunct professor at …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 31, 2019 CHAPEL HILL, NC – University of North Carolina System Interim President Bill Roper released the following statement: “I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ron Mitchelson as interim chancellor at East Carolina University, effective immediately. Dr. Mitchelson has been serving as the university’s acting chancellor since September 30 …
An assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, studies the mechanisms by which the brain cells form connections with one another to share information with each other.
Zach DeVries, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of entomologist Coby Schal, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award, part of the federal agency’s High-Risk, High Reward Research program. The award will provide $250,000 per year for five years. DeVries will use the award to expand upon his previous findings that …
UNC System Institutions Help Uncover NC Histories Every North Carolinian inhabits a haunted landscape. Our ghosts don’t rattle chains. Objects don’t dance when the clock strikes midnight. But we live in a state where past and present intermingle. ‘History’ isn’t gone … it’s with us in the here and now, appearing in ways that we …