UNC Adams School of Dentistry Director of Telehealth Shaun Matthews is working with others to provide dental care remotely through real-time consultations and other teledentistry models.
UNC American studies professor Glenn Hinson speaks with the Warren Record about “Southern Legacies: The Descendants Project,” for which students located and interviewed the descendants of two men lynched in Warren County in 1921.
UNC School of Medicine neuropharmacologist Tom Kash and his lab conducted experiments suggesting a particular brain circuit motivates us to overeat — a potential new target for anti-obesity and binge-eating treatments.
UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention receives $3.75 million CDC grant to address the challenge of scaling up the Med-South Lifestyle Program, a Mediterranean dietary pattern for a Southeastern population.
UNC Program in Nicaragua Director Sylvia Becker-Dreps shares why she became a physician, what drew her to research childhood infectious diseases in Nicaragua, and how she unwinds when she’s not at work.
UNC has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, along with three other cooperative research centers, to identify a vaccine for chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections.
UNC city & regional planner Nichola Lowe researches the processes and practices that contribute to more equitable forms of regional economic development and labor market adjustment.
This semester, UNC senior Annie McDarris participated in a capstone class through the Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program that examined well water contamination and environmental justice in N.C.’s northern piedmont.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a team of UNC researchers $14 million to develop affordable ultrasound devices and study childbirth in developing nations.
Knee injuries are tough, especially if that injury requires surgery. New research from biomedical engineers at UNC and NC State could help people avoid knee replacements by “bioprinting” tissues using the patient’s own cells.