A new species of the oldest known beaked bird – about 120 million years old – has been named for biologist Alan Feduccia of UNC. Feduccia is the S.K. Heninger professor emeritus and former chair of the biology department. The fossil of the… read more
Rates of diabetes are significantly higher than expected among children and adolescents from five ethnic and racial groups in the U.S., according to new findings by researchers at UNC and others. The results are outlined in a series of papers in… read more
Researchers at UNC and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have synthetically reconstructed the bat variant of the SARS coronavirus that caused the SARS epidemic of 2003. The scientists say designing and synthesizing the virus is a major step… read more
If scientists knew exactly what a breast cancer cell needed to spread, then they could stop the most deadly part of the disease: metastasis. New research from UNC’s School of Medicine takes a step in that direction. The UNC researchers reduced… read more
Risky mortgage products, not risky borrowers, are the root cause of the mortgage default crisis, according to findings from a new study of default rates among low-income and minority home buyers conducted by UNC’s Center for Community… read more
The N.C. Institute for Public Health has been awarded an $8.5 million, five-year grant to create a new research center focused on helping protect the state from a wide range of disasters and threats. The institute, part of the University’s… read more
Carolina has been awarded a five-year, $7 million grant to establish a muscular dystrophy research center named in honor of the late Sen. Paul D. Wellstone ’65 of Minnesota, who also earned his doctoral degree at UNC in 1969. The new Senator Paul… read more
UNC’s newly renamed Gillings School of Global Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods. Better information… read more
UNC’s research grants and contracts totaled $678.2 million in fiscal 2008 – up 11 percent from the record-setting $610 million received the previous year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. More than half of the 2008 total – about… read more
Brian D. Strahl, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, is among the first recipients of a new award for innovative, potentially revolutionary research. The grants, the first made under a new National… read more