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UNC-Chapel Hill researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells
Ronit Freeman and her lab use innovative approaches to build functional cells, bridging the gap between synthetic and living materials.
UNC-Chapel Hill study examines the increased adoption of they/them pronouns
People are using “they/them” pronouns more often according to a new study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The research was led by Jennifer E. Arnold, a professor of psychology and neuroscience in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Flowing Together: Restoring North Carolina’s drinking water
PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” are prevalent in a variety of products and linked to a range of health problems. An interdisciplinary group of UNC-Chapel Hill scientists and engineers are deploying and evaluating technologies that filter these difficult-to-remove substances from N.C.’s drinking water.
Seven students selected as 2024 Carolina Blue Honors Fellows
Seven students were selected as recipients of the 2024 Carolina Blue Honors Fellowship in Sports Entrepreneurship to pursue unique and self-initiated summer internships built around growing international sports businesses.
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers discover new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have discovered that tardigrades – microscopic animals famed for surviving harsh extremes – have an unusual response to radiation. The research, led by UNC biologist Bob Goldstein, was published in Current Biology.
Carolina researcher trailblazes environmental accountability
As a graduate student at Yale University, Angel Hsu traveled to Copenhagen for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or the Convention of the Parties (COP) 15. Today the UNC associate professor of public policy says that experience changed her worldview.
Austin Vo’s graduate research has taken him around the world
The sociology Ph.D. student spent time in France to study “indigenous responses to French colonialism,” he shared, and is continuing his research in Vietnam and Senegal this year.
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