UNC Charlotte faculty initiative increases viability of organ transplants Each year, more than 120,000 people across the nation wait to receive a life-saving organ transplant. Unfortunately for those on the waiting list, only about 3,500 transplants take place because of a lack of donor organs. Beyond the medical challenges of matching a patient with a …
CHAPEL HILL, NC – The University of North Carolina announced that Ben Bahr, the William C. Friday Chair and Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, is the recipient of the 2017 Oliver Max Gardner Award.
UNC Pembroke’s Bahr honored with Gardner award for work in neurological research Ben Bahr, the William C. Friday Chair and Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, has been recognized as the 2017 Oliver Max Gardner Award winner by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. The …
For Heidi Kelley, teaching isn’t just imparting information to students. Instead, she helps students “discover their knowledge for themselves.” “I challenge my students to dig deep into both their own experience and our class texts to unlock the meanings of human experience—theirs and those of others,” Kelley said. “Thus my teaching tactic is to gently …
UNC campuses help rural NC areas become ‘smart and connected communities’ Arcot Rajasekar knows there’s a technology gap between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. Rajasekar, who serves as the Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said rural grade school students …
Unique partnership puts UNC system professors, students on display at Museum of Natural Sciences For Jim Johnson, it’s one thing to discuss paleontology with his eighth grade science class at Lucas Middle School in Durham. It’s quite another for him to show his students actual paleontologists at work. On a field trip to the North …
The State of Black Asheville Research Spurs Buncombe County Commissioners into Action Ten years after research into The State of Black Asheville began, that ongoing UNC Asheville student research project has made headlines, coming from the classroom into the community and prompting significant new funding by Buncombe County for community programs addressing the needs of …
New WSSU program has university’s legal counsel mentoring students considering law school Asia Dukes knew she wanted to become a lawyer. As a then-junior at Winston-Salem State University, the Charlotte native worked voluntarily as part of the legal advocacy group that helped free Kalvin Michael Smith from nearly two decades of incarceration after he was …
Steve McKeand, professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University, has devoted his long academic career to making the state greener – in both an ecological and economic sense.
Board of Governors selects forestry professor leading innovative tree-breeding program for top service award. Steve McKeand gets funny looks when he tells people what he does for a living. “They have one of two reactions: stunned silence, or a giggle,” he says. High Resolution Download High Resolution Download It’s not easy being a tree breeder, …