UNC School of Education researcher Cathi Propper has been awarded a $2.5 million National Institute of Child Health and Development grant to study the link between poverty and developing cognitive processes that facilitate learning, self-monitoring, and decision-making in children.
UNC geographer Tamlin Pavelsky collected the most comprehensive set of field measurements to date of stream width and length in the smallest streams, which will help with estimations of the total surface areas of rivers and streams across the planet.
Frank Stasio of WUNC’s “The State of Things” talks with UNC School of Law professor Ted Shaw about voter disenfranchisement in North Carolina.
Junior Victoria Whitley is an undergraduate researcher and math major studying how some salts dissolve in corn syrup, causing stratified fluids to diffuse unevenly.
The nation’s largest inland body of water has no ferry service. UNC Kenan-Flagler professor Nick Didow is developing a tourism-based economic strategy to put high-speed passenger ferries on the sound.
UNC religious studies professor Bart Ehrman is regarded as one of the world’s most influential New Testament scholars, but after publishing his first book designed for the masses, his reputation expanded into many American households.
Nena Peragallo Montano is the dean of and professor within the UNC School of Nursing. Her research focuses on health disparities in HIV prevention among Latinos, as well as translating research into best practice within the community.
Hosted by the Institute for the Environment and Kenan-Flagler Business School, the UNC Clean Tech Summit highlighted how Carolina, Research Triangle Park, and the state play a key role in leading the way to a green global economy.
In a recent research study, UNC sociologist Kate Weisshaar found that many employers are biased against job applicants who have temporarily stayed at home with their children.
Height amplifies already problematic perceptions of threat in black men, which can lead to harassment and even injury, according to a new study by two Department of Psychology and Neuroscience researchers.