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READDI – or not? – for the next pandemic

September 28, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (September 28, 2023) – Many of us don’t worry much about Covid-19 these days, despite a recent uptick in infections. But researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are already preparing for the next viral pandemic.1 “It’s a question of when – not if,” Dr. Nat Moorman, co-founder of the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Research, UNC Chapel Hill

“We need to find a solution”: The impact of ECU research

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University appears to be able to stop some melanoma cells from growing and to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU, Research

Suzanne Barbour: Science is a team sport

November 11, 2021 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

Each fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role of public universities. This year, he teaches with Matt Springer and Buck Goldstein from the School of Education and Dean Suzanne Barbour of the Graduate… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Dispatches from the Classroom, Research

RTI Forethought: Get READDI for the next pandemic

November 11, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (November 11, 2021)  – As we struggle to emerge from one pandemic, RTI International is putting at least $5 million into an effort with researchers from four Triangle universities to confront the next one. As part of its Forethought Research Collaboration Challenge, the nonprofit research institute RTI challenged researchers last spring to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Research

Caudill: If ever basic research mattered…

March 25, 2020 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

By W. Lowry Caudill CHAPEL HILL – We need an answer for coronavirus in a hurry.    Scientific research generally doesn’t happen in a hurry.    So thank goodness for the work Dr. Ralph Baric has done for the past six years in a secret lab at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Baric and… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, Research, UNC System

2019: The turmoil continues

December 26, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2019, At Risk, Great Universities, Leadership, Research, UNC Board of Governors, Where We Stand

Universities can learn something from sweet potatoes

November 13, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2019, Agriculture, NCSU, Research

Low stone walls at Carolina

October 9, 2019 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: 2019, Research, UNC Chapel Hill

RTI’s research impact

September 25, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2019, NCSU, Research, RTI 60th, UNC Chapel Hill

RTI & University Collaboration

September 18, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2019, Research, RTI 60th, UNC System

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