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 …
The auditorium of the Mickey L. Burnim Fine Arts Center on the campus of Elizabeth City State University was packed Friday, March 10, when Chancellor Thomas E.H. Conway Jr., was officially installed as the sixth chancellor and 11th chief executive officer of the historic university. Presided over by UNC System President Margaret Spellings, the ceremony …
NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill researchers working on breakthrough cardiac treatment How do you cure a broken heart? If you’re researcher Ke Cheng, hopefully one day soon, it will be with a simple injection. Cheng, an associate professor in the college of veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University and biomedical engineering department (a joint …
Joint online program aims to help North Carolina address its growing teacher shortage (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Feb. 9, 2017) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University are launching a joint online program for people who have been hired to teach in North Carolina schools but haven’t yet …
Imagine doctors looking inside their patient’s bones, seeing each layer in order to pinpoint a problem without ever resorting to the operating table. Imagine researchers manipulating 3-D images of their subjects, breaking them down layer by layer without physical dissection. These scenarios may seem futuristic, but in reality this is cutting-edge research happening in labs …
Unique UNCG/N.C. A&T partnership gives grad students best of both campuses Despite locations four miles apart and being part of the same university system, creating the Joint Master of Social Work Program (JMSW) between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was no small undertaking. After years …
Carolina Advising Corps has helped thousands of North Carolina students and their parents across 64 partner schools throughout the state with the college application process – how to find scholarships, how to apply for financial aid, how to find which college experience best matches with the students’ goals.
NCSSM senior sets up own nonprofit group to preserve, educate about nature There are many young people who are concerned about the environment, but Kenneth Xu has taken his commitment to a new level. The North Carolina School of Sciences and Mathematics senior has formed his own nonprofit, 501(c)3 environmental group, the Student Environmental Education …
The University of North Carolina Press has named the recipients of its first round of Thomas W. Ross Fund publishing grants.
The drive through North Carolina follows winding roads nestled among trees showing their golden autumn colors. It can be hard to imagine that many of these roads, connecting town to town across the state, were recently under water due the devastating flooding that accompanied Hurricane Matthew. The hurricane blew in October 8 with little consequence …
CHAPEL HILL – University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings today announced the eight UNC institutions that have been identified as potential candidates to establish and operate laboratory schools serving students in kindergarten through 8th grade, as required by a provision in the 2016-17 state budget enacted in July. The plan has been submitted to …
Joining a nationwide partnership of PBS stations allows UNC-TV’s science news stories to be broadcast to markets across the nation and, in turn, to broadcast hundreds of other science news stories of interest to North Carolina viewers. In February, UNC-TV joined a growing content-sharing partnership of 26 PBS stations nationally under the umbrella of WNET …
Independent counsel to conduct inquiry of information about academic irregularities University of North Carolina President Tom Ross and UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt have retained an outside attorney to conduct an independent inquiry of academic irregularities at UNC-Chapel Hill, based on new information that may become available. The University has remained in contact with …