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These ‘young punks’ made big waves

Oct 17, 2024 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro |UNC Research

In the early 2000s, excavators used too much dynamite to create the foundation of Chapman Hall, blowing out an extra 6,000 square feet two stories underground. Everyone wanted to get their hands on that extra space, especially applied mathematicians Roberto Camassa and Rich McLaughlin, who were running their fluid experiments in an old kitchen in Phillips Hall.
Small materials yield big innovations

Oct 16, 2024 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro |UNC Research

Robots that mimic human skin. A wearable patch for wireless drug delivery. A device that can communicate with brain cells in petri dishes. These futuristic innovations sound like science fiction, but they are the real projects of Wubin Bai. As an assistant professor of applied physical sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, Bai works with soft and nanomaterials to create next-generation medical devices. Soft materials are “anything we can deform with our hands,” he says.
Small Materials, Big Innovations

Oct 4, 2024 | innovate.unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro |UNC Research

October 4, 2024 By Alyssa LaFaro, UNC Research Photography by Alyssa LaFaro, UNC Research Robots that mimic human skin. A wearable patch for wireless drug delivery. A device that can communicate with 3D cell structures called organoids. These sound like something from a science-fiction novel, but they are the real projects of Wubin Bai. As a professor of applied physical sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, Bai works with soft and nanomaterials to create next-generation medical devices.
VR may help athletes recover from ACL injuries

Jun 12, 2024 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro |Joshua McCormack

Health and Medicine Wednesday, June 12th, 2024Press the play button above to watch the videoU.S. high school athletes experienced more than 5.2 million injuries between 2015 and 2019. For Madison Davis, a high school soccer player in spring 2019, it was a season-ending tear to her ACL, the primary stabilizing ligament in the knee. The injury happened when Davis planted her foot to send the ball flying only to have the striker from the other team kick her knee out from under her.
Beyond the Stacks

Apr 9, 2024 | endeavors.unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro

Listen to the story below:“I think libraries have been saving me since I was a young kid,” admits Kathryn Desplanque, an art history professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. “It’s amazing to have experienced all the ways they have shepherded me through different times of my life.”As an art historian, Desplanque’s research has taken place in some of the most famous and beautiful libraries across the world.
Researcher uses data science to address homelessness

Apr 5, 2024 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro

Friday, April 5th, 2024You May Also Like... Active Shooter and Critical Incident Response training customizes emergency preparedness to your workspace. In a campus email, Provost J. Christopher Clemens announced that Abd-El-Khalick has been named provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, effective July 1. Events include poetry performances, arts and crafts, a barbecue fundraiser, ultimate Frisbee and a pool party.
Researcher uses data science to address homelessness

Apr 5, 2024 | brnw.ch | Alyssa LaFaro

Friday, April 5th, 2024You May Also Like... Active Shooter and Critical Incident Response training customizes emergency preparedness to your workspace. In a campus email, Provost J. Christopher Clemens announced that Abd-El-Khalick has been named provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, effective July 1. Events include poetry performances, arts and crafts, a barbecue fundraiser, ultimate Frisbee and a pool party.
Husband and wife oversee Carolina’s CAR-T therapy

Mar 26, 2024 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro

Press the play button above to watch the videoDr. Gianpietro Dotti and Dr. Barbara Savoldo met in Italy, when she was on a fellowship and he was working in a lab. They shared a common passion and developed the same goals: to find better treatments for cancer and, eventually, other diseases.
Heat hurts the economy

Oct 23, 2023 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro

At the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Ric Colacito is a finance professor and an expert in international macroeconomics — a large-scale view of how entire economies function. The climate has become one more factor for Colacito to consider when assessing economic health. “I’m interested in global risks that are going to stick around for a long time,” he says. “And climate change isn’t going anywhere.
Bullying researcher makes schools safer

Oct 18, 2023 | unc.edu | Alyssa LaFaro

For many students today, school is not a safe space. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, one out of every five students has been a victim of bullying — and that’s exactly the research specialty of Dorothy Espelage, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education in the UNC School of Education. Espelage and UNC-Chapel Hill are hosting the World Anti-Bullying Forum in downtown Raleigh Oct. 25-27.