Category: North Carolina
The National Science Foundation has awarded $203,549 to a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Indiana University and North Carolina State University.
Eight new Jacobs Scholars and eight new Jacobs Fellows begin their studies this fall at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Selected from a large pool of incoming students, they are the recipients of the most prestigious and substantial scholarship awards in the school.
For the past decade, USC’s Women in Science and Engineering program has been working to make academic research and scholarship more hospitable to women scientists.
Researchers from Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) have developed a DRAM-like ferroelectric memory, called FeDRAM, which offers a simpler structure and longer retention time than conventional DRAMs.
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With more than 2.2 million people behind bars at any given time, the United States holds the dubious distinction of having the world's highest per capita rate of incarceration.
Now, a study from the UCLA School of Public Affairs and the RAND Corp.
This fall, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents three exhibitions exploring various aspects of African American and African basketry arts and their historic connections.
The largest of the three is "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art" (Oct. 4–Jan.
The National Nuclear Security Administration today announced that a team led by Baker Concrete Construction, Inc., of Monroe, Ohio has been awarded a $91.5 million contract for the construction of NNSA’s Waste Solidification Building (WSB) at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, S.C. The WSB will process waste streams from the NNSA’s plutonium disposition efforts at SRS -- principally wastes from the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and from weapons pit disassembly operations -- by converting them to a cementitious material for offsite disposal.
USC finished in fourth place in the 2008-09 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings, the Trojans' highest ranking since the national all-sports program began in 1993-94.
USC's previous best finish was fifth in 2006-07.
Before plastic surgery and Botox, an ancient culture had a different way of dealing with the quest for eternal youth.
