The Kenan-Flagler Business School has launched a business accelerator to speed the growth of firms with environmental and social objectives. The UNC Business Accelerator for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, or BASE, aims to connect entrepreneurs to… read more
Dan Reed, founder of an ambitious Triangle universities consortium known as the Renaissance Computing Institute, has left the University to take a position with Microsoft Research. Reed, who also has been Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and senior… read more
UNC, Duke University, N.C. State University are joining with RTI International to form a consortium to focus on the subject of energy. The Research Triangle Energy Consortium aims to combine the participants’ research strengths in finding ways to… read more
Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy Philly cheesesteak… read more
For those who prefer, UNC could come to stand for University of No Classrooms. The UNC System has launched UNC Online, a one-stop shop that is meant to rival for-profit online education heavyweights such as the University of Phoenix. A Web… read more
By translating genetic discoveries into new ways to diagnose and treat disease, a new research institute being launched at Carolina aims to make drugs safer and more effective and speed laboratory discoveries to physicians and patients. The… read more
Carolina is earmarking $11 million to increase its focus on environmental research, education and engagement. Its launch this week of the UNC Institute for the Environment – formed through expansion of the existing Carolina Environmental Program -… read more
Recent Carolina graduates will help advise low-income high school students as part of a new $10 million partnership. Carolina is one of 10 colleges and universities joining the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in creating the program, which will be… read more
The University has entered into a multi-year agreement with GE Healthcare to establish a Center for Research Excellence in Breast Cancer Imaging within UNC’s Biomedical Research Imaging Center, creating a University-wide center for excellence to… read more
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin ’89 spoke at UNC on Monday in the first event of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. A collaborative initiative of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and its School… read more