UNC-Chapel Hill students Larry Han and Matthew Leming have been awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships, which provide full support for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. This is the first time Carolina has had two people selected … Read more

Rheomics is one of six startups to win ~$50K in grant funding from the nonprofit Durham-based NC IDEA Foundation. Since 2006, the foundation has awarded nearly $4.2 million to 104 startups around the state. The six companies were narrowed from nine finalists, … Read more

Aman sits outside a café in North Carolina. His wife, in Paris, calls him and tells him she would like to have lunch. He puts on a pair of eyeglasses and presses a button. Then, suddenly, she is sitting across … Read more

UNC officials say the new Master of Arts in educational innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, which was introduced on Monday, is the first of its kind in the U.S. Although it is based in the School of Education, the program has … Read more

The government has a robotics problem. Government grants for cutting edge robotics research and development typically favor large military contractors. But a lot of the development in robotics these days comes from individuals, startups, and university labs capitalizing on developments … Read more

For transfer student Bahij Dahdal, school is not the only thing he has to worry about each day. The father of three has to get up early each day to take his children to school before making the commute to … Read more

The computer science department at UNC is using one of the largest classrooms on campus, but students still complain they can’t get into classes they need. The number of computer science majors at UNC has increased fivefold since 2010. In … Read more

When you put more than 50 faculty members, center directors, and researchers from 30 different campus units in a room, ideas are inevitable. However, all the attendees at the Data@Carolina Workshop last week agreed on one point: The explosion of data presents … Read more

What do you get when you mix a group of computer science PhDs, a vibrant startup culture and an ultra-supportive university department? You get Impulsonic, the Carrboro-based startup that’s pioneering work in the software of computerized sound, while making the case … Read more