Board of Governors selects forestry professor leading innovative tree-breeding program for top service award. Steve McKeand gets funny looks when he tells people what he does for a living. “They have one of two reactions: stunned silence, or a giggle,” he says. High Resolution Download High Resolution Download It’s not easy being a tree breeder, …
Jeff Joines pulls a toy car out of a cardboard box on his desk and sets it on a table in his office. On a piece of paper he traces a floor plan for a single-car garage and pushes it across the table at me. “See how many times you can roll the car into …
“I marvel at your success,” said UNC President Margaret Spellings when introducing 2015 Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar at the July 29 Board of Governor’s meeting. Sancar was there to receive the O. Max Gardner Award, the oldest and most prestigious statewide honor given to a faculty member who has “made the greatest contribution to the …
Faculty and staff from across the UNC system put their heads together to learn about competency-based education models from around the country. Nearly 30 national experts covering a broad range of topics highlighted the 2016 Competency-Based Education Summit held at the University of North Carolina’s Center for School Leadership Development. Teams from UNC’s 17 campuses, …
Growing up in Peekskill, New York, David Shapiro often could be found with his favorite companion, his pet dog Buddy, who seemed undeterred by that young boy’s often debilitating stutter. Like other people with the fluency disorder, the boy spoke without hesitation when talking with his pet or when alone. Today, as an acclaimed speech-language …
The instructions were simple. Claudia Pagliaro’s students had to create a language-based project for their future deaf and hard of hearing students using the UNCG School of Education’s SELF Design Studio. The students didn’t receive much direction, but that was the point. “I want them to go into the SELF Design Studio and try things. …
Chapel Hill, NC –Carmen Russoniello, founding director of East Carolina University’s Center for Applied Psychophysiology, and Sylvia A. Flack, executive director of Winston-Salem State University’s Center of Excellence for the Elimination of Health Disparities, are the 2015 winners of the James E. Holshouser Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Service, given by the Board of …
University of North Carolina at Charlotte cancer researcher Pinku Mukherjee believes that in the future, immune therapies and vaccines will be used to fight cancerous tumors, just as they are used today to prevent infectious diseases.
“When I talk to people, if I say ‘nonwoven,’ they say ‘non-what?’” said Behnam Pourdeyhimi, a textile materials professor at North Carolina State University and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of nonwovens.