GREENVILLE, North Carolina, May 12 (TNSfund) -- East Carolina University issued the following news release: Two multi-institutional teams involving East Carolina University faculty members have been awarded $1 million each from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program to create economic, societal and technological opportunities in their regions. Dr. Reide Corbett, dean of Integrated Coastal Programs at ECU and executive director of the Coastal  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, May 12 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news: Researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center found mailing human papillomavirus (HPV) self-collection tests and offering assistance to book in-clinic screening appointments to under-screened, low-income women improved cervical cancer screening nearly two-fold compared to scheduling a  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, May 12 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * The study, called EPITOPE, led by senior author A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and contributing author Edwin Kim, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, shows superior results in desensitizing children to peanuts. Results w  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, May 12 (TNSfund) -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: The Pulitzer Center has selected junior Una Wilson as Wake Forest's 2023 Reporting Fellow. She will receive a $3000 stipend to report on the impact of community gardens on poor communities near Mumbai, India. The title of her research project is "Mumbai slum gardeners plant seeds to save lives." In her application to the Pulitzer Center, Wilson highlighted the massive population growth in urban  more