Research funding is considered a point of pride for the University, and some faculty are working on new ideas to keep it that way.

Students and faculty will have more opportunities to complete research projects and make breakthroughs, thanks to UNC’s new research ranking among public and private universities.

Thanks to UNC researchers, the HIV virus might no longer have a place to hide.

In a single decade, UNC’s physical space expanded at an unprecedented rate, filling up main campus and allowing enrollment and research to grow faster than ever before.

Funding for university research is dwindling, but some researchers say it might not be a bad thing. The federal budget, approved by U.S. Congress earlier this month, cuts funding for National Institutes of Health by about 1 percent or about $260 million for the 2011 fiscal year.

With the click of a mouse, senior Kaitlyn Jongkind exposed a group of Cherokee Native Americans to the Internet, expanding their world ­— and giving them a link to modern medicine.

Glenn McLaurin thought his first year seminar, The Changing American Job, would be interesting — but he never expected it to lead him to his life’s passion. The class prompted McLaurin, now a junior, to become a public policy major and to pursue a research project about local economic development incentives.

Select undergraduate students forego a summer at the beach to pursue one of UNC’s multiple research opportunities.

Junior Bethany Corbin finds honor killings fascinating. And at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research on Monday, she was able to share her passion and hard-researched thesis on the politics and minority rights issues associated with honor killings among Turkish Kurds and German Muslims.

The 2011 winners of the JNO Awards in Entrepreneurial Studies for the minor in entrepreneurship are Eric Xu, Reed Turchi, Amber Koonce and Safia Davis.

University researchers joined a national collaborative working to reduce sports-related concussions this week. The National Sports Concussion Cooperative aims to help athletes through interdisciplinary collaboration and research. The four founding organizations are the UNC Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, the Matthew Gfeller Foundation, the American Football Coaches Association and Rawlings Sporting Goods.

Fewer than 10 percent of children who have asthma use traditional inhalers correctly, according to a new University study.

The Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is slated to lead a clinical trial testing a new option for colorectal cancer patients whose illness has not subsided after first-line treatments. About 40 percent of patients whose cancers contain certain mutant genes see their illnesses progress in spite of traditional primary treatments.

When Barbara Entwisle was director of the Carolina Population Center, she faced more than $800,000 in cuts during her first two years at the helm.

The nation’s leading innovators planted the seed Tuesday for future Googles, Intels and Microsofts inside Koury Auditorium. Meeting for only the third time in its existence, President Barack Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship held its first public forum outside Washington, D.C.

It’s been almost six years since David Lee stepped down as the chairman of the department of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC to become the vice president for research at the University of Georgia.

Researchers from UNC explain how baby loggerhead turtles navigate the open ocean in an online report published Feb.

UNC finance professor Joey Engelberg has discovered stock ticker symbols that are popularly searched on Google can forecast an upcoming bump in the company’s share price.

Barbara Entwisle, one of three finalists in the University’s search for a vice chancellor for research, said she wants to see students and faculty propel the University to a level of research prowess consistent with its mission.

A newly released study by UNC researchers finds that corals growing closest to the open ocean have the most trouble dealing with climate change and pollutants.