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Business
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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Saving is a critical first step on the path to financial security. But many low-income families find it challenging to choose saving for the future over meeting pressing spending needs today. |
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Campus and Community
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Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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The General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday (May 11) honored the chancellor and his wife and two other couples who have supported a broad range of campus initiatives for their outstanding service to the University and to the association. |
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Campus and Community
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Sunday, May 12, 2013 |
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Steve Case, co-founder of America Online and chair of the Case Foundation and chairman and CEO of Revolution, urged the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s newest graduates to be attackers, not defenders, as the new leaders of what always has been “a startup nation.” |
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Health and Medicine
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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In a study using mice, researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found that a hormone, adrenomedullin, plays a crucial role in preventing the pregnancy complication preeclampsia. Surprisingly, this hormone protects women from preeclampsia when emitted by the fetus, not the mother, during the most critical times in pregnancy. |
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CAROLINA IN THE NEWS
UNC researchers creating map to determine what we eat
The Associated Press Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda.
Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are trying to change that by creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are buying and eating.
