The UNC System has awarded over $6.4 million in state-funded grants to help its universities, North Carolina Area Health Education Centers, and rural hospitals expand and establish new rural health care workforce training programs.
University of North Carolina System campuses will operate COVID-19 vaccine clinics in the coming weeks and months, with an emphasis on reaching underserved and rural populations.
he UNC System’s six historically minority-serving institutions have each received a new mobile freezer capable of safely storing and transporting COVID-19 vaccine vials. These six freezers represent the first of 62 scheduled to arrive in the state in the coming months as part of Operation Deep Freeze.
On January 12, 2021, UNC-TV will become PBS North Carolina Powered by the UNC System.
Not only have faculty, students, and staff continued their education and research in the midst of a global pandemic. They are also finding new ways to give back to the communities that support their studies and research.
Some of the most exciting scientific work in North Carolina isn’t taking place in sterilized labs. It’s unfolding on trails and in backyards, conducted by K-8 children participating in The NC Arboretum’s ecoEXPLORE program.
An East Carolina University team in the Brody School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine has received a $1.2 million federal grant to expand telehealth-based mental health services in North Carolina.
The warm, rainy summer in North Carolina has set the stage for what could be a better-than-average year for fall foliage, according to a forestry expert at NC State University.
The University of North Carolina System has announced that it is helping promote the statewide rollout of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) contact tracing application, built on Apple and Google technology.
85 UNC System research projects focus on treatment, community testing, and prevention of COVID-19, with the goal of providing new data and information to help lawmakers and policymakers guide the state’s pandemic response.