Kelly Hogan ’01 (PhD) took some troubling statistics on student success and turned them into a new college classroom at Carolina: less talk, more action and deeper learning. read more
Nobody could say no to Sophie Steiner — especially after her departure, as UNC Hospitals filled the void with a new kind of advocate for teen and young adult cancer patients. read more
Researchers will explore using nanoparticles to create cancer vaccines and improve delivery of cancer-fighting drugs and patients’ responses to them. read more
The UNC School of Media and Journalism will use a $3 million grant to open a research center to explore new models for community news and support testing and development of digital media products for local news sites. read more
FloraQuest is a new iPhone app developed at the Botanical Garden that lets plant enthusiasts identify more than 7,000 plants native to the Southeastern U.S. read more
The Republic of Liberia now has an easy-to-read website for tracking Ebola statistics thanks to a team of students and alumni led by an interactive multimedia instructor at Carolina. Steven King, an assistant professor at the School of Journalism… read more
Licensing technologies created at Carolina generated $7.93 million in income for the University in fiscal 2014, more than double the highest amount of royalty income Carolina has received in a single year. The amount comes from licensing revenues… read more
Kenan-Flagler Business School has long offered one of the nation’s top-ranked master of accounting programs. Starting next summer, the school plans to also make the program available online. “Demand for hiring our MAC graduates has never… read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $2 million to the Environmental Finance Center at the University for its work toward improving the country’s smallest water systems — those serving fewer than 10,000 people. Small water… read more
Cynthia Bulik, a Distinguished Professor of eating disorders at UNC, has been awarded up to $7.2 million to conduct the largest and most rigorous genetic initiative in eating disorders ever undertaken. Funded by the Klarman Family Foundation,… read more