Thanks to $21,820 in funding from the National Park Service (NPS), Dr. Mark Spond, Appalachian State University’s liaison to the NPS, has completed a condition assessment of agricultural parcels adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway — a 469-mile road that snakes along the central and southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina.
Researchers at The University of North Carolina Pembroke, East Carolina University, and the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs will undertake a longitudinal study of hurricane-affected residents of four rural North Carolina counties thanks to a nearly $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Most researchers do their work with two feet on solid ground — not floating in midair. But in November 2018, that’s where NC State’s Professor Karen Daniels and her team of four physics and engineering undergraduates found themselves as they conducted an experiment aboard a unique research flight that simulated gravitational conditions in outer space.
An ECU faculty member whose work has allowed thousands the ability to communicate normally was recently elected to the inaugural class of the National Academy of Inventors Senior Members.
Kenan-Flagler professor Jim Kitchen challenges undergraduate students in his Entrepreneurship and Business Planning course to come up with business ventures that will ultimately help charities across the Triangle.
UNCW Psychology professors Raymond Pitts and Christine Hughes received a $446,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to research how acute and chronic exposure to the prescription opioid oxycodone affect specific reward processes involved in impulsive and risky behavior.
UNCG’s Dr. Jianjun Wei in the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering has found a potential EKG abnormality solution in a point-of-care biosensor built with nanostructures.
When Dr. Pauletta Brown Bracy was announced the recipient of the 2019 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement during the American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Wash., it seemed as if her journey had come full circle.
Professor Daniel Johnson of the UNCW Department of Music has received a Fulbright Award to research and teach integrated arts education in Salzburg, Austria.
Antarctica’s unique climate enticed UNC Charlotte earth sciences researcher Martha Cary Eppes and her research colleagues to spend weeks camping in a tent in sub-zero temperatures, in order to literally monitor and listen to rocks as they fracture. They are studying how rocks alter and erode in one of the most extreme environments on the planet.