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Nicewicz receives Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering E-mail
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Chemist David Nicewicz at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a 2012 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The fellowship is worth $875,000 over five years.
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Big Data grant winner includes Rajasekar E-mail
Monday, October 08, 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Arcot Rajasekar will lead one of eight research teams that have won a Big Data grant – a new federal funding initiative that aims to improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize and glean discoveries from huge volumes of data.
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UNC-Chapel Hill rises to 9th in federal R&D expenditures E-mail
Monday, August 27, 2012
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rose to ninth from 16th among leading private and public research universities for the level of federal funding ($545.99 million) devoted to research and development in all fields during fiscal 2010.
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Researchers reveal evolution’s design for keeping lungs clean and healthy E-mail
Friday, August 24, 2012
With each breath, we inhale life-sustaining, oxygen-rich air. But that same air is also riddled with germs that threaten our health. Now, in collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal evolution’s design for keeping our lungs clean and healthy. The discovery, to be published August 24 in Science, not only revamps previously held beliefs on how the human airway functions, but also provides a unifying theory for how to treat seemingly different airway diseases, ranging from cystic fibrosis to asthma.
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$4.5 million National Science Foundation water project taps UNC as technical lead E-mail
Monday, August 20, 2012
RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been tapped as the technical lead in a $4.5 million collaborative water project by the National Science Foundation. The project, which involves a team that spans eight U.S. universities, aims to develop a cyberinfrastructure that will significantly broaden water researchers’ ability to share and access data – an attempt to address some of the world’s most critical water problems.
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