The award will be used over five years to strengthen malaria information systems and build the capacity in countries supported by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative for malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation.
The award will be used over five years to strengthen malaria information systems and build the capacity in countries supported by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative for malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation.
New materials from the lab of Carolina researcher Ronit Freeman that can reconfigure on demand have potential for applications in diagnostics and drug delivery.
This year’s winners of the Creativity Hubs Awards were selected from 23 proposals, involving 207 UNC-Chapel Hill researchers representing 46 departments across 11 schools and the College of Arts & Sciences.
The study also showed that each bird — regardless of size or species, or even the species of its neighbor — most commonly flew about one wingspan to the side and between a half to one-and-a-half wingspans back from the bird in front of it.
Frank Leibfarth and Wesley Legant were selected from a pool of over 300 applicants by a panel of scientific experts. Carolina is the only university with two Beckman Young Investigators this year.
UNC School of Medicine scientists led lab experiments suggesting a particular brain circuit motivates us to overeat, and it could be a new target for anti-obesity and binge-eating treatments.
