Dr. Cassandra Kwon’s career in textiles started with a soda bottle. As a junior at a Raleigh high school, Kwon listened with curiosity while a visiting student ambassador from NC State’s College of Textiles held up a plastic soda bottle and described how the bottle, made of polymers, was an example of textile science. Kwon, …
As North Carolina prepares for the start of another hurricane season, emergency management officials are taking steps to use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, to help them respond to and recover from disasters. A partnership between the North Carolina Geodetic Survey, North Carolina Emergency Management, and the Geomatics program in the College of Science …
Joint speech program between UNCG, WCU gives students a way to earn their doctorate Summer McMurry runs a full-time business she started in Asheville in addition to being a wife and mother of three children. Pursuing her doctorate, without a nearby program, wasn’t an option for her –until now. McMurry is one of three doctoral …
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria living on and inside a plant’s roots harvest a vital nutrient with limited global supply. The nutrient, phosphate, makes it to the plant’s roots, helping the plant increase its yield. The work, published in the …
Doctoral student helps develop cancer-fighting compound Having your name on a U.S. patent isn’t so unusual for university scientists. But to have your name on a patent while still a student – that’s another story. But Daniel Ladin isn’t an ordinary student. First, he’s a doctoral student in the pharmacology and toxicology program at the …
Forget Jurassic Park. Appalachian State University will soon have its own Triassic Park – complete with its very own dinosaur-like creature. In truth, the “park” will be a reconstructed aetosaur habitat in the Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory/Interactive Rock Garden that runs along Rankin Science South. The garden will be home to a cast …
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched a five-year initiative, “Creating Scientists: Learning by Connecting, Doing and Making,” to expose undergraduate students to more hands-on research and collaborative opportunities and help them hone their analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle real-world problems. The plan is not just for science majors, notes Kelly …
UNC Charlotte creating data tools to help Department of Defense track pathogen migrations In combating international threats to public health such as the Zika virus, data could be the most important weapon in the arsenal. Several U.S. Department of Defense agencies, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, are working with the University …
Tracking the Movement of Cyborg Cockroaches New research from North Carolina State University offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches – or biobots – move when exploring new spaces. The work moves researchers closer to their goal of using biobots to explore collapsed buildings and other spaces in order to identify survivors. …
In a rapid-fire series of breakthroughs in just under a year, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have made another stunning advance in the development of an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a common and aggressive brain cancer. The work, published in the Feb. 1 issue of Science Translational Medicine, describes how …