CHAPEL HILL – UNC President Margaret Spellings announced the University of North Carolina’s Research Opportunities Initiative (UNC ROI) will provide three new grants worth a total of $6.2 million to teams from six universities in the UNC system. The grants are funded by the North Carolina General Assembly to promote innovative and potentially game-changing research …
Across the country, enrollment in online courses and programs has ticked up each year for the last 13, according to the most recent data from the Online Learning Consortium. Western Carolina is no exception to that rule. Since 2007, enrollment in online degree programs has grown from 1,624 students to 2,045, a 25 percent increase …
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) has received a $3 million grant to launch a new center to study the barriers to economic mobility in East Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. The WSSU Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM) will serve as a hub for faculty research, undergraduate student research scholarship, and community outreach. The grant …
Faculty, students, public weigh in on the new NCSSM-Morganton campus Michael Martine describes his experience as an alumnus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics as “Hogwarts, before Hogwarts was ever written about.” Instead of spells and potions that the fictional Harry Potter was taught, Martine learned about science and computers with his …
Applications are now open for scholarships at two University of North Carolina incumbent institutions for incoming qualifying students to have the chance to get free tuition and expenses, plus an opportunity to study abroad.
Exhuming medieval graves in the Transylvania region of Romania ― the legendary home of Dracula ― sounds like fiction, but that is what a Western Carolina University bioarcheology research group did this summer. The field school, under the leadership of Katie Zejdlik, WCU instructor of anthropology and sociology, examined how centuries of religious and political upheaval …
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), in collaboration with AdmitHub, is providing prospective students and their families with instant, 24/7 access to information through Winston, an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual assistant. In August, WSSU became the first HBCU and first college in North Carolina, to employ an AI virtual assistant to help prospective students successfully apply and enroll …
The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $4.8 million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to help alleviate energy poverty in Southern Africa. Energy poverty is the lack of access to modern energy sources such as electricity and modern fuels, crucial resources to the well-being of individuals and communities, the environment …
UNC and ECU medical graduates make an impact in rural healthcare It takes a special kind of physician to practice healthcare in rural and underserved parts of North Carolina. The pay isn’t on par with doctors in Charlotte or Raleigh; the offices may not have access to the latest technology; the newest medicines may be …
Principal Investigator Dr. Lauren Davis and her cross-disciplinary team at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University have secured a five-year, $3 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. The NRT grant will support food insecurity research in a project called “Improving Strategies for Hunger Relief and Food Security Using Computational …