Most teenaged construction workers in North Carolina are doing jobs that are considered risky or are prohibited by federal and state labor laws, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study published this week in the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Dell research computing cluster, called Topsail, is among the world's top 75 supercomputers, as ranked by the Top500 Project. Ocracoke, another cluster housed at UNC, is 104th.
The spate of hurricanes that hit North Carolina over the last ten years left behind ecological effects that lasted long after flood waters receded, according to an upcoming publication of a study by marine scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other institutions.
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have awarded $210,000 to help build a "green" Visitor Education Center at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have demonstrated that normal development of the eye requires the right amount of a neural stem cell gene be expressed at the right time and place.
Three dozen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's newest faculty members will board a bus Monday (May 15) for a weeklong introduction to the state, its history and people as the Tar Heel Bus Tour makes its ninth journey across the state.
Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach for America, will deliver the spring commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chancellor James Moeser has announced.
Low-intensity therapy offered by medical doctors, combined with either medication or specialized behavior therapy, can effectively treat alcoholism, making treatment more readily available to people who need it, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and numerous other sites nationwide.
If otherwise healthy humans temporarily lost their skeletons, they could neither protect themselves nor move around. Millions of small animals, however, do lose their skeletons one or more times a year in a risky process known as molting. As arthropods grow, they must shed their tough outer shells, or exoskeletons, to have room to expand.
There are no medications and few therapies available to effectively treat patients suffering from anorexia nervosa, according to a new report by researchers at the RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center.
A two-step chemical process augments a method of making cleaner-burning alternative fuel from coal and other carbon sources by transforming some of its waste products into diesel fuel, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, report.
A study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has concluded that closing the only hospital in a rural community has a negative impact on the local economy: In the three-year period after a lone hospital closed, researchers found the communities' local per capita income levels fell 4 percent.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health is one of 12 U.S. schools and graduate programs of public health recently selected to participate in the Engaged Institutions Initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
New research out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that physically active adolescents are not only improving their health "“ they also are decreasing the chance that they will get into trouble.
Teenagers between the ages of 12 and 14 who use media with high sexual content are up to 2.2 times more likely to have sex by the time they are 16 than those who use less such media, according to a new study published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics.
Soon-to-be mothers and their clinicians need to thoughtfully consider the positive and negative outcomes, for both mothers and babies, of cesarean delivery on maternal request, according to a new report.
The first gene therapy human trial in the United States for a form of muscular dystrophy is under way. The clinical trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) tests the safety and effectiveness of a therapy that was developed over two decades by scientists at UNC and the University of Pittsburgh.
Lyle Lovett, Alvin Ailey and the Cleveland Orchestra are among artists coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2006-07 Carolina Performing Arts Series.
Progress Energy has invested $150,000 to create the Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
North Carolinians dealing with anxiety, depression or other common mental disorders are having a more difficult time getting treatment because of the limited number of psychiatrists statewide, according to a recent report on psychiatrist supply.
American adults consume an estimated 21 percent of their daily calories from beverages "“ twice as much as the 10 percent recommended by the World Health Organization. The Beverage Guidance Panel wants to reverse that trend and help people understand how to choose healthy beverages as part of a balanced nutritional diet.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, the first center of its kind in a school of public health.
UNC at Chapel Hill is among eight colleges and universities to join the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in a $27 million partnership aimed at enabling more community college students to earn bachelor's degrees from selective four-year institutions.
UNC's North Carolina Botanical Garden, a research and conservation garden, recently announced a partnership with the United Kingdom's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to preserve plants of the United States' Piedmont ecoregion, which spans the states from Delaware to Alabama.
He goes by Avi, a name his twin sister game him when they were 1. The award-winning author of more than 35 books for children and young adults will give the free public lecture "My Name is Avi" at 10 a.m. March 4 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, directed by pianist Arturo O'Farrill, will headline the 2006 Carolina Jazz Festival, March 1-4 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Daniel A. Reed, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute and vice chancellor for information technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House announced this week.
"The Seven Deadly Sins," a ballet chanté, or ballet with songs, will be performed at 8:15 p.m. March 8-9 in the Center for Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Interested actors, singers, dancers and theater technicians need to apply soon to seek summer jobs through the nation's largest combined audition for outdoor historical dramas. Applications are due by March 9, each with a $30 nonrefundable fee.
Dr. Tommie Shelby of Harvard University will discuss "Race, Class and Shame: DuBois on Black Solidarity" on Tuesday (March 7) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Community and environmental considerations are increasingly affecting the profitability of companies worldwide, and this trend will be the focus of a March 30-31 conference sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Sustainable Enterprise.
Several of the most prominent voices in the national debate over religion in public schools will take part in a daylong symposium on Feb. 24 sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law's First Amendment Law Review.
The computer giant Lenovo is helping to fund the technology needs of students participating in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Covenant, a groundbreaking initiative that enables students from low-income families to graduate debt-free.
James A. and Jane W. Smith of Hendersonville have established the Jane Winningham Smith Doctoral Scholarship in Cardiovascular Nursing with a pledge of $13,000 each year for the next seven years.
Ann E. Penn, most recently director of the Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and the Women's Resource Center at Kent State University, has been hired as equal opportunity/Americans with Disabilities Act officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Frank Rich, op-ed columnist and former theater critic at The New York Times, will discuss art, culture and politics March 6 at 7 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, a leading scholar in African-American studies and author of books including "Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America," will speak on Feb. 23 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Two members of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill family have joined efforts to build a permanent archive of digitized text and multimedia materials on the World Wide Web.
Learning about black culture and history on the World Wide Web is now easier, thanks to a new online guide from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
In the past year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill named 54 faculty members to endowed professorships "“ designations that are created through gifts to the university and that recognize excellence in teaching and research.
Tar Heel basketball coach Roy Williams and his wife Wanda will serve as honorary co-chairs of an effort to create a $10 million endowment for the Carolina Covenant, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's groundbreaking initiative to make a Chapel Hill education possible debt-free for low-income students.
The children of Johannes (Hans) and Sonja van der Horst have established a distinguished professorship in Jewish studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in honor of their parents "“ and in fulfillment of the wishes of Sonja van der Horst, a Holocaust survivor.
The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University for a collaborative partnership to address four pressing local and global health care concerns.
Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers disagree with a prominent Colorado attorney's contention that talk of a national and global epidemic of obesity is exaggerated.
Taking the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to all county health workers statewide is the idea behind the N.C. Public Health Academy, a new initiative created by the UNC School of Public Health-based N.C. Institute for Public Health.
For the third consecutive year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had a higher rate of students going abroad than any other public research university nationwide, according to Open Doors 2005, an annual report published by the Institute of International Education.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks first "“ for the fifth consecutive time "“ among the best values at the top 100 U.S. public university campuses, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found two genes that are essential for the proper development of muscle.
Jim Roberts, newly named national editor for The New York Times and an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will discuss "How The New York Times Covers the Nation" on Nov. 18 in Carroll Hall.
Black Americans' fruit and vegetable intake increased by 32 percent for each additional supermarket in the neighborhoods where they lived, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study.
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