UNC Greensboro professor Michael J. Kane Any monkey will tell you laboratory tests are repetitive, mundane, an environment ripe for mind wandering. If your aim is to better understand why we daydream, the laboratory should be the perfect setting. But can we rely on laboratory experiments to explain how these internal distractions limit our ability …
With little to go on but fragments of oral history and the scant clues they could glean from a decaying steel hull, a team of East Carolina University maritime studies students has helped piece together the identity and story of a shipwreck in the Pamlico Sound near Rodanthe. The project was made possible by the …
This fall, the UNICORN Angel Network launched with the mission of cultivating community among NCSSM-related entrepreneurs while connecting them to sources of advice and capital. Powered by IDEA Fund Partners, one of the Southeast’s most active seed and early stage venture investors, the UNICORN Angel Network is a platform for students, alumni, and supporters of the …
Breaking Straps To Test Their Strength GREENSBORO, N.C — Have you ever wondered just how strong those straps are that hold down loads on tractor-trailers? Or have you wondered how safe it is to drive on a highway behind a truck with a load tied down by these straps? The researchers in the Fail Lab …
The flu is simple, right? You get it from germs, it feels terrible and then you get better. Turns out there’s a bit more going on. Every year, millions of people will get sick from the flu—but many don’t know how it works or spreads or what they can do to prevent it. Christopher Hurt, …
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has formed a partnership with Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), a U.S. Department of Energy Center of Excellence in nuclear research. NCCU will become a formal member of the consortium established more than 50 years ago to focus on fundamental and applied nuclear physics in the areas of national nuclear …
Newly discovered molecules that could prove to be anti-cancer agents. Plant-derived compounds that could give us new ammunition against deadly drug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA. Nanoparticles that might one day help doctors focus cancer drugs more precisely on tumors. New drug candidates to minimize damage to the brain after a stroke. That’s a small sample …
Through a new $2 million National Science Foundation grant, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University mathematics professor Dr. Suzanne O’Regan, is part of a team of scientists from the Cary institute of Ecosystem Studies and the University of Georgia harvesting the power of machine learning to forecast outbreaks of zoonotic disease. Each year more …
Researchers have developed a melanin-enhanced cancer immunotherapy technique that can also serve as a vaccine, based on early experiments done in a mouse model. The technique is applied via a transdermal patch. “Melanin is a natural pigment that can efficiently transform absorbed sunlight energy into heat,” says Zhen Gu, corresponding author of a paper on …
Research from the Hive to the Lab Dozens of young honey bees swirled and buzzed through the air on the warm, late June day. The two undergraduates, though, weren’t sure how to proceed. Collecting bees for research purposes isn’t covered in most classes. UNCG’s Sara Rubio Correa and Erin Estes, a Northern Michigan University ecology …