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
RTI International’s 60th anniversary
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – When it began 60 years ago, Research Triangle Institute, as it was called then, was the first fixture in Research Triangle Park – the fledgling institute was given 185 acres in the new research park. “When we got to the park, there was nothing here but pine trees and ‘possums,” remarked… READ MORE
UNC Asheville and C15CO
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – At its campus in Research Triangle Park, Cisco Systems had a goal of zero waste. But it also had a cafeteria that generated 15,000 paper plates and plastic utensils a week as garbage. So the Fortune 500 company turned to the Mechatronics Engineering program at UNC Asheville for help. And a… READ MORE
Not just the dollars, but the impact of UNC research
CHAPEL HILL – Research at UNC-Chapel Hill means both big dollars and big impact in North Carolina and around the globe. “Here at Carolina, we’re proud of the fact that we’re now the fifth-leading research university in the nation,” Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video. “We’ll top $1 billion in research expenditures… READ MORE
Roper: ‘That’s all given us by research’
CHAPEL HILL – Check this on your smartphone: In the past 30 years, we’ve seen technological innovations we never could have dreamed of in health care, communications and any number of fields. “That’s all given us by research,” Interim UNC System President William L. Roper says in the accompanying video. “And we, the University of… READ MORE
NCSU to use tiniest organisms to improve yields, reduce chemicals
RALEIGH – In a search for solutions to some of the world’s biggest agricultural challenges, a team of researchers from NC State University and three Danish universities will look to the tiniest of organisms. To raise yields to feed a fast-growing world population, they want to find ways to harness microbes that live on, in or… READ MORE
Martin-Vega: Partnerships help prepare STEM workforce
Dr. Louis Martin-Vega Dean, NC State University College of Engineering RALEIGH – NC State University puts learning into practice to tackle 21st century challenges – decaying infrastructure and critical workforce needs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations are just two. Historical achievements and future projections both indicate that the university’s College of Engineering… READ MORE
Building – quite literally – on UNC research
SANFORD (Aug. 9, 2017) – UNC Chapel Hill and biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer offered a textbook example this week of the value of university research – and not just in Research Triangle Park. Pfizer and Gov. Roy Cooper announced that Pfizer will invest $100 million in expansion of its facilities in Sanford to build on research… READ MORE
Why We Need Federal Funding of Social Science Research
By Jeff Braden Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences NC State University President Trump’s budget proposes to dramatically reduce or altogether eliminate federal funding for social science research, primarily through cuts to the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has challenged critics… READ MORE
UNC Research: “We’ve seen powerful results”
CHAPEL HILL – Chancellor Carol Folt calls them “zingers” – imaginative ideas that, when coupled with years of fundamental research, produce enormous breakthroughs in science. And in just the past three years, Folt says in the accompanying video, UNC Chapel Hill has made extraordinary research advances in fields such as biomedical engineering, cancer and Big… READ MORE