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Arts
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
On Sept. 20, 1958, visitors were welcomed into the new William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among those present were a slew of faculty, including soon-to-be Ackland director Joseph Curtis Sloane; Gov. Luther H. Hodges; UNC President William C. Friday and Chancellor William B. Aycock.
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Health and Medicine
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Monday, August 04, 2008 |
In the budding field of nanotechnology, scientists already know that size does matter.
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Students
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
National College Advising Corps training
Sunday-Thursday (Aug. 3-7)
UNC campus, Chapel Hill
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Students
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
Greater help in navigating the complicated world of college admissions and financial aid is on the way to more than 7,000 seniors in 38 North Carolina high schools, thanks to a substantial expansion of the year-old Carolina College Advising Corps. The corps, based at in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has increased from four advisers to 19 advisers this year.
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Arts
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
The Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received $1.25 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to deepen and expand the museum’s role in the education of University students.
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CAROLINA IN THE NEWS
For Nanotech Drug Delivery, Size Doesn't Matter--Shape Does
Scientific AmericanAs nanotechnology to ferry drugs to their destinations is tested in both the laboratory and in clinical trials, scientists have made a surprising discovery about the kinds of nanoparticles that might be most effective for eventually transporting a number of different cancer-fighting therapies throughout the body. The conventional wisdom is that the smaller, the better. But that may not be true, according to a team of scientists led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.N.C.) chemistry professor Joseph DeSimone. DeSimone and his colleagues have shown that the shape of these microscopic drug carriers is much more important than size and can even mean the difference between whether a drug penetrates target cells effectively or ends up as a target itself, only to be destroyed by the immune system.
