Catastrophic brain injuries associated with full-contact football appear to be rising, especially among high school students. The increase is alarming and indicates more coaches and athletic trainers should change how they teach the fundamental… read more
Drawing upon internationally recognized faculty expertise, UNC plans to mobilize around water through a new two-year, campuswide academic theme called “Water in Our World.” UNC will be working to ensure that safe and available water — critical… read more
A team of researchers at UNC has successfully flushed latent HIV infection from hiding, with a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma. Tackling latent HIV in the immune system is critical to finding a cure for AIDS. While current… read more
When Carolina lost 47 faculty members to raids from other universities last year, almost half of them took more than just their expertise. Millions of dollars in research grants walked out the door with them. Twenty-two researchers who had been… read more
An HIV prevention research study led by UNC Professor Myron S. Cohen has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. The study, HIV Prevention Trials Network 052, evaluated whether antiretroviral drugs can… read more
During a White House ceremony next month, Thomas L. Kash, assistant professor in the department of pharmacology and the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC’s School of Medicine, will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for… read more
UNC sports medicine researcher Kevin Guskiewicz, one of the country’s leading experts on concussions, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago awarded Guskiewicz a MacArthur Fellowship,… read more
This year more than 240,000 men will be diagnosed with new cases of prostate cancer and more than 33,000 men will die from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. With that statistic in mind, Joe DeSimone, a chemistry professor at… read more
Endeavors, the University’s 27-year-old award-winning magazine that covers research on the campus, is an early victim of the some $80 million UNC will lose as a result of state budget cuts. The magazine, which is published three times… read more
A major federal grant for HIV research led by Carolina faculty signals a shift from attempts to contain the spread of the virus to the belief that a cure is within reach. David Margolis, professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology in… read more