In late 2017, Axel Tuxen of UNC Wilmington came across an article in Forbes about a five-year-old girl who had written a letter to Google requesting that they consider hiring her older brother, because he was such a big fan of theirs. Google replied to the girl’s letter and ultimately hired her brother. “When I first saw that, …
“You just have to stay confident when you’re talking about nothing,” says Will Skinner, a rising UNC Asheville sophomore from Littleton, N.C., who has been walking up to strangers in the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, “flyering,” trying to gather an audience for the university’s production of Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project. …
ECU gets $4 million grant to support engineering students East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology has received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) in an effort to support low-income students pursuing undergraduate engineering degrees. The grant will provide scholarships to 80 …
Innovate Carolina’s Dreamers-Who-Do program is helping students reach their innovative potential and launch ideas for social impact. Three years. 56 student projects. A $100,000 gift. And countless lives improved. All made possible by a donor who’s passionate about student education and philanthropic opportunities that have a social impact. The Dreamers-Who-Do program, open to all University …
Tucked away in a couple of nondescript offices in downtown Durham’s South Bank building, three NCSSM student interns work intently on projects that may one day propel the startups for which they work into multi-million dollar corporations. They are among eight total NCSSM students, from both the residential and online programs, who are participating in …
Fayetteville State University (FSU) student Lenore Miller, who led the team that won the NASA best business case for rapid detection and identification of pathogens, has been awarded back-to-back internships at the NASA Langley Research Center. Miller will be conducting research on thin film coatings and the effect of hypersonic light projectiles on such coating …
Conference Highlights Innovations in Student Success Strategies What does it take to succeed in college? A lot more than book smarts. When students enter the UNC System, the majority of them are doing much more than enrolling in classes. Many are venturing out on their own for the first time. They must learn how to …
A pair of UNC Pembroke biology students spent their summer researching wild plant extracts and its effect on aging. Dontae Mosely and Ashley Edwards spent 20 hours a week testing extracts from wax myrtle and rabbit tobacco on Caenorhabditis elegans–tiny, microscopic worms commonly known as C. elegans. Dr. Courtney Carroll, an assistant biology professor, formed …
Students from universities in North Carolina and across the U.S. fine-tuned their research skills with a range of projects –from creating useful organic compounds to detecting concussions through virtual reality – at East Carolina University this summer. ECU hosted two Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) sites – a new one in chemistry and biochemistry, and …
East Carolina University engineering students faced a daunting task. They had to come up with a way to flip a 1,600-pound piece of wood. But this was no ordinary piece of wood. It is the stern post from the pirate Blackbeard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), and it had been sitting on the bottom …