Ben Kaminsky

Youhong Nancy Guo, an applied physical sciences professor in the College, and her team used a simple buffering chemical to make a solution that can grab carbon dioxide when it’s cool and let it go when gently warmed.

Physicist Otto Zhou and chemist Mark Schoenfisch were among 185 inductees this year to receive one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded to inventors worldwide.

Construction is underway on the Argus Array, a project led by College physics and astronomy professor Nicholas Law and funded by Schmidt Sciences and XTX Markets founder Alex Gerko.

Kenan-Flagler’s Fei Long digs deep into the commercial consequences of this shift by asking what happens when platforms promote their own products and compete directly with the sellers they host.

Hsu’s Data-Driven Envirolab in the Institute for the Environment will use the grant to expand their work to address misinformation and greenwashing in AI as well as the societal impacts of generative AI on corporate climate action.

Andrew Boyle and collaborators combined data from NASA and the European Space Agency to uncover thousands of stars that used to be part of the star cluster known as the Seven Sisters.

SOM’s Jonathan Parr will lead the development of a next-generation program to provide rapid and actionable data on infectious disease threats, helping military and public health leaders prevent outbreaks and safeguard deployed forces.

This breakthrough helps scientists understand how cells respond to some of the most widely used medicines at the molecular level, potentially aiding in the creation of a range of safer and more effective treatments.

MATRIX was recently named as one of the TIME “Best Inventions of 2025” for its effort to use AI to identify new therapeutic uses for FDA-approved drugs. The system that powers MATRIX was developed by RENCI, and the project includes collaborators in the schools of medicine and pharmacy.