Over the summer, I wrote about the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science and its importance to our research community. A key focus of the NIH plan is to make available the vast amounts of data produced by researchers. Here … Read more

I live in a neighborhood of artists: painters, potters, and sculptors, all highly motivated to interpret the world around them through their crafts. I witness the same environment here at UNC, where scholars and students alike strive to understand humanity … Read more

University researchers generate large amounts of data and therefore must be focused on its organization. The NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science, which was released last year, provides a roadmap for modernizing data science ecosystems and focuses on accessible, well-organized, secure, … Read more

A major priority of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is to stimulate virtual research networks that concentrate talent and resources on bold ideas, while simultaneously freeing the development of those ideas from typical organizational boundaries. Our goal … Read more

In collaboration with research deans from each of UNC’s schools and three divisions within the College of Arts & Sciences, as well as directors of UNC’s centers and institutes, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has identified six … Read more