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A new development model for the world’s third-longest river


The new paper by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers reveals rapid fluvial incision attributed to the growth of high topography in China’s Yangtze River. “This study presents a new model for when and how the Yangtze River was born,” said Eric Kirby, professor and chair of the department of earth, marine and environmental sciences.



A new development model for the world’s third-longest river

The new paper by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers reveals rapid fluvial incision attributed to the growth of high topography in China’s Yangtze River. “This study presents a new model for when and how the Yangtze River was born,” said Eric Kirby, professor and chair of the department of earth, marine and environmental sciences.


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Gift establishes first endowed term professorship for the new School of Civic Life and Leadership

The Orville Gordon Browne (OGB) Foundation has made a $1 million gift to the UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences to establish an endowed term professorship in Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership.

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Researchers awarded NSF grant to support the future of semiconductors

The award supports a collaborative project between UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University. Researchers will develop a new short-wave infrared light camera and train a diverse group of students in using innovative technologies.

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$2.5m NSF grant for Center for Galapagos Studies researchers

Researchers with the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies, alongside external collaborators, received a $2.5m grant from the National Science Foundation to expand their research on marine plankton in the Galapagos.

The Yangtze River flows along toward the mountains, with green and rocky cliffs on each side.

A new development model for the world’s third-longest river

The new paper by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers reveals rapid fluvial incision attributed to the growth of high topography in China’s Yangtze River.

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Autonomous medical robot successfully steers needles through living tissue

A team of researchers and physicians led by Professor Ron Alterovitz in UNC’s computer science department has demonstrated, for the first time, a robotic needle capable of autonomously maneuvering through intricate lung tissue while avoiding obstacles and important lung structures.

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Shuford Innovators-in-Residence share experiences with students

The 2023-2024 cohort will offer mentorship and professional development opportunities for students in the entrepreneurship minor as they visit campus this year.

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The Black and White Southerners Who Changed the North

When we think of “the American working class,” we think of whites, historian Blair L.M. Kelley notes. But much of that class is Black, and, compared with white laborers, a higher proportion of all Black people are part of it. Kelley, a professor of Southern studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells the poignant story of her grandfather John Dee, the son of a Georgia sharecropper, in her latest book, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class."

 

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Thomas Wolfe Lecture: Allison Hedge Coke Oct. 3

Poet, writer and educator Allison Hedge Coke will deliver the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Hill Hall’s Moeser Auditorium. Among her many honors and awards, Hedge Coke was a National Book Award finalist and received the Emory Elliott Book Award and the American Book Award.

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