UNC research round-up for Nov. 30, 2015
By Ashlen Renner | November 29The UNC School of Medicine is one step closer to understanding schizophrenia, a mental disorder that affects about one in 100 people.
The UNC School of Medicine is one step closer to understanding schizophrenia, a mental disorder that affects about one in 100 people.
After more than 350 students rallied outside of South Building, Chancellor Carol Folt addressed the need to continue conversations about race on campus at Friday's Faculty Council meeting.
As if bats were not creepy enough. More than a decade after Ralph Baric and a team of researchers from the Gillings School of Public Health started studying SARS, they discovered a new sequence of the virus that can jump from infected bats to humans without mutating.
“She hasn’t had the chance to come on campus, but I’ve already begun to have conversations with her about our university, what we do, who we are, and she starts in March,” Folt said. “We have lots of time to really develop an understanding for her about what our special aspirations are.”
With the goal of filling 19 vacant seats by the next election, UNC’s Student Congress held an open forum Monday evening.
The sound of the Marching Tar Heels practicing the UNC fight song bounced in the background as Deborah Stroman delivered a lecture on the business of sport Saturday.
With his new program, Tar Heel Gameplay, sophomore Jeremy Kim believes he could make video games like “Super Mario Bros.” accessible to people with disabilities.
The smell of sugary glaze filled the air as the first of the 480-dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts were unpacked.
UNC's journalism school celebrated its new name on Friday with a light show across the front of Carroll Hall, a disc jockey and cake.
As students begin the new semester, they may see a divide among their professors.
In response to an executive order banning Syrian refugees from entering the United States, protesters gathered in front of the post office on Franklin Street and at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
University Archivist Nicholas Graham preserves UNC records from when the University was founded to the present. He explores his favorite collections and his daily life in the stacks of Wilson Library.
Students and Chapel Hill residents flock to Franklin Street to celebrate the town's annual "Homegrown Halloween".
Jennifer Curtis, a musician and composer from Carborro, shares her experience of composing and performing in the Paperhand Puppet Intervention show, Beautiful Beast, in September and her inspiration for her music.
First-year students give us a tour of their new cribs.