Turmoil continued through 2019 among the leadership of individual UNC campuses and the UNC System itself. A new state budget for 2019-21 still hasn’t been adopted; raises for K-12 teachers and higher education faculty are still on hold. And the fate of a statue continued to divert energy from the university’s more noble pursuits. Yet… READ MORE
Universities can learn something from sweet potatoes
By Leslie BoneyNC State University LUCAMA – It was a strange group of visitors looking down on the sweet potato processing line at Scott Farms one day last month. As they listened to a plant manager talk about everything from planting to shipping, a nuclear engineer stood next to a graphic designer, a women’s studies… READ MORE
Low stone walls at Carolina
CHAPEL HILL – When Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz looks at the stone walls that surround UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, he doesn’t see barriers. He sees something easy to climb. Sure, there are distinct disciplines at Carolina. But in those low stone walls, Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video, he also sees a symbol of the… READ MORE
RTI’s research impact
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Together, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, Duke University and RTI International do $3.5 billion worth of research every year. “The opportunity that’s available to the four entities is to come together, to work collaboratively, and to try to attack really big problems in the world,” Wayne Holden, RTI International’s President and… READ MORE
RTI & University Collaboration
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – RTI International was founded 60 years ago to offer opportunities to high-level science graduates emerging from North Carolina’s universities. And those relationships continue to this day. “North Carolina universities are integral and intertwined with everything that RTI does,” Jacqueline Olich, RTI’s Senior Director of University Collaborations, says in the accompanying video…. READ MORE
RTI International’s 60th anniversary
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – When it began 60 years ago, Research Triangle Institute, as it was called then, was the first fixture in Research Triangle Park – the fledgling institute was given 185 acres in the new research park. “When we got to the park, there was nothing here but pine trees and ‘possums,” remarked… READ MORE
UNC Asheville and C15CO
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – At its campus in Research Triangle Park, Cisco Systems had a goal of zero waste. But it also had a cafeteria that generated 15,000 paper plates and plastic utensils a week as garbage. So the Fortune 500 company turned to the Mechatronics Engineering program at UNC Asheville for help. And a… READ MORE
Not just the dollars, but the impact of UNC research
CHAPEL HILL – Research at UNC-Chapel Hill means both big dollars and big impact in North Carolina and around the globe. “Here at Carolina, we’re proud of the fact that we’re now the fifth-leading research university in the nation,” Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video. “We’ll top $1 billion in research expenditures… READ MORE
Roper: ‘That’s all given us by research’
CHAPEL HILL – Check this on your smartphone: In the past 30 years, we’ve seen technological innovations we never could have dreamed of in health care, communications and any number of fields. “That’s all given us by research,” Interim UNC System President William L. Roper says in the accompanying video. “And we, the University of… READ MORE
NCSU to use tiniest organisms to improve yields, reduce chemicals
RALEIGH – In a search for solutions to some of the world’s biggest agricultural challenges, a team of researchers from NC State University and three Danish universities will look to the tiniest of organisms. To raise yields to feed a fast-growing world population, they want to find ways to harness microbes that live on, in or… READ MORE