Cancer researchers produce more data than their human peers can keep up with. The Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer helps cancer centers, including UNC’s Lineberger, get treatment information to doctors quickly, wherever they are. read more
Faculty members from a cross section of disciplines on campus are tackling the issues of local hunger and academic success for foster children in North Carolina, thanks to funding from the 2016 C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional… read more
When the Zika virus presented an unexpected public health crisis, one UNC researcher was unusually well-prepared to try to unravel its mysteries. read more
A national research network led by the UNC School of Medicine has found that many toddlers diagnosed with autism when they were 2 years old had a substantially greater amount of fluid surrounding the brain when they were 6 and 12 months old, before… read more
A new research initiative at UNC aims to combat opioid addiction problems by reducing barriers to rural physicians. read more
How LSD causes its powerful effects has long remained a mystery. Now, because of work led by UNC’s Dr. Bryan L. Roth, scientists can begin to parse how the drug sparks such a dramatic reaction in the brain, just as the scientific and medical… read more
A UNC professor’s research team used historical measurements of surface winds from across eastern North Carolina and coastal waters to determine that huge swaths of land and sea were primed for wind development. read more
One of the most comprehensive studies ever is designed to tease apart the symptoms loosely clustered under the diagnoses of depression and post-traumatic stress and figure out precisely which physical processes are correlated with which problems. read more
Few, if any, historians have looked as deeply into the American presidency — and conveyed it with such flair — as Carolina treasure William Leuchtenburg. read more
Historian William Leuchtenburg dislikes being asked to make predictions. But he does not shy from what he sees as the truth. read more