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Galápagos: A Gateway for Global Research
February 8, 2022For more than 10 years, the UNC Center for Galápagos Studies has been a hub of collaborative research activity spanning many disciplines, with the potential to impact the globe. Diego Riveros-Iregui and Amanda Thompson, the center’s new interim co-directors, strive to use their own experiences from the islands to expand its reach and grow its reputation as a world-renowned research institution. Since Charles Darwin conducted his famous finch studies that led to his theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands have been heralded as a destination for seeing incredible wildlife. Today, more than 275,000 tourists visit the archipelago each year, supported … Read more
Endeavors: Eduardo Tadafumi Sato
February 1, 2022Eduardo Tadafumi Sato is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He studies how music is defined across national borders and unpacks the social and political definitions of what makes music “national,” specifically within Brazil. Q: When you were a child, what was your response to this question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” A: I don’t remember having any particular response to this question. I remember that once I went to a school parade dressed as an engineer, but I think that this costume was just what … Read more
US News and World Report Ranks Carolina 36th Among World’s Top Research Universities
November 16, 2020The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is ranked 33rd among the world’s top 1,500 universities, according to the seventh annual 2021 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings. Among U.S. research universities included on the list, UNC-Chapel Hill placed 22nd overall and 7th among public campuses. The University ranked 33rd globally last year. The ranking builds on U.S. News and World Report’s widely cited Best Colleges rankings, which have rated U.S. universities and colleges over the past 30 years. The Best Global Universities ranking provides a global context for U.S. research schools, evaluating institutions worldwide from 86 countries … Read more
NCI Appoints Gopal Director of Center for Global Health
February 3, 2020The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Satish Gopal, director of the Center for Global Health. He assumes his new role today. Gopal is a physician-scientist who led the cancer program for UNC Project-Malawi, a research and care collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Malawi Ministry of Health, since 2012. Gopal holds faculty appointments in the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and is a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. “The global cancer burden is … Read more
Gillings Research on Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Could Aid Public Health Response to Coronavirus Outbreaks
February 3, 2020New research from scientists at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has revealed that remdesivir (RDV, GS-5734) – a broad-spectrum antiviral medication previously shown to be effective against coronaviruses (COVs) like SARS-CoV, as well as against the Ebola virus – is more therapeutically effective against the Middle East respiratory coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in mice than comparative antiviral treatments. The news of this treatment’s effectiveness comes as an outbreak of a new type of pneumonia has been identified in Wuhan City in China. As of Jan. 6, the virus has infected nearly 60 people in the mainland city and is now being monitored for potential spread to … Read more
Daniel Malawsky ’20 Is Selected as Churchill Scholar
January 31, 2020University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Daniel Malawsky, who is currently studying biostatistics, has been named a Churchill Scholarship recipient by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. Malawsky is one of 15 American scholars selected for this research-focused award, which provides funding for master’s study at the University of Cambridge in England. He will be based at the school’s Churchill College, the only college at Cambridge focused on STEM subjects. Malawsky, a Morehead-Cain Scholar, has also won a C-START Program grant and an outstanding poster award at the Stanford Research Conference. Additionally, he is also a … Read more
At the Center of an Epidemic, Nursing Moves the Needle
January 31, 2020“Here, it’s unthinkable.” Lixin Song, describes the pediatric cancer ward in Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe, Malawi, where ailing children recuperate two to a bed and nurses must mix biohazardous drugs by hand without proper ventilation. In the adult clinic, patients pack waiting rooms from morning to night, returning the next day until they can be seen. A common thread of cancer, in nearly every corner of the world, is that its care and treatment are influenced and sustained by the power of nursing and nurses. From cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship to palliative care, oncology nurses interact with … Read more
Focus Carolina: John Bruno
January 31, 2020John Bruno is a marine ecologist and professor in the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research is focused on the impact of climate change on the ocean and marine ecosystems. His lab group primarily works in the Galápagos and the Caribbean, including Belize and the Bahamas. The lab works on understanding how human activities alter the structure and functioning of marine food web (all animals living in the sea from plankton to coral to fish to seabirds) and what local conservation strategies are effective in mitigating these impacts. At Carolina, Bruno teaches Marine … Read more
Feeding the World: Pharmacy Researcher’s Work May Lead to More Nutritious Food
January 31, 2020Aaron Anselmo, is looking for new ways to deliver micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, to people across the world. “Currently a lot of different foods are fortified with micronutrients in the developing world, but some of these fortification approaches don’t address the end use of the product,” he said. “For example, cooking at high temperatures and long times can result in degradation of the fortified micronutrient which then won’t be absorbed by the body.” Anselmo is currently an assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics. His lab conducts research on therapeutic … Read more
Well Said: Growing From Study Abroad Experiences
January 31, 2020On this week’s podcast, Carolina senior Erin Hager invites us on her study abroad experience to Santiago, Chile, where she studied in the fall of 2018. Listen to this episode or read a transcript of this episode. “It really does change your life and the trajectory that your life can take,” said Erin Hager, a senior psychology student from Wilmington, North Carolina, who studied abroad in Santiago, Chile, for the fall semester in 2018. Those changes in trajectory come from the personal and social growth you experience while abroad. “A big realization was that I can do anything that I … Read more