The RTI University Scholars Program provides support— half of each Scholar’s salary and fringe—for distinguished academic researchers to spend scholarly leave time at RTI, actively collaborating with RTI experts. The program’s...

CHAPEL HILL, NC – A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NC State University has received a $5.3 million, five-year Transformative Research (R01) Award from the National Institutes of...

UNC System President Tom Ross reeled off the numbers: 800,000 veterans, the third largest active military force of any state in the nation, six major military installations. North Carolina is a military state; the public institutions...

The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is part of a Presidential focus aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application...

Gabriel Dichter, PhD, earned a Hettleman Prize for his work imaging and elucidating brain regions involved in various aspects of autism, depression, and other neurological conditions. When Gabriel Dichter was a teenage tennis...

Shrinking budgets have caused scientists to scramble harder than ever to secure funding for their research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the main source of funding for biomedical research in the United States, has...

CHAPEL HILL – Dualogics LLC and Joe Startup Technologies have received a total of $100,000 in commercialization awards from Carolina KickStart, a joint program of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS)...

Chancellor Carol L. Folt will deliver a keynote address on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s rich history as the nation’s first public university and its bright future as a top, global, public research institution...

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) has named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as its academic partner to help coordinate research needed for implementation of a bold new strategy aimed at saving...

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD Dr. Aziz Sancar is a Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Turkish Academy of Sciences....