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Triangle Startup Weekend showcase's the next big thing

Twenty teams in total spent last weekend developing new Web or mobile businesses from the ground up, in hopes of dazzling a sold-out crowd at N.C. State and a jury of North Carolina's entrepreneurship elite.

44 North Carolina teachers chosen for Kenan Fellowships

Forty-four North Carolina school teachers were named to the Kenan Fellows Program's Class of 2013 on Monday.

Kenan Fellows

Emerging Company Showcase presents 14 UNC startups

Fourteen startup companies based on innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present at the annual Emerging Company Showcase on Wednesday.

Classroom to Market

Entrepreneurs tackle global problems at Triangle Startup Weekend

Imagine hundreds of people, coming together for one weekend, to launch the websites and apps that solve really big problems or create big ideas for the world. That ... is Triangle Startup Weekend.

Triangle Startup Weekend

UNC first, Duke third in Boston U. business case event

A team of students at UNC-CH's Kenan-Flagler Business School took home the top prize in the Boston University School of Management International Tech Strategy Business Case competition. Duke finished third.

New imaging technology boosts fight against prostate cancer

Called parametric MRI, the new type of MRI imaging provides being used at Duke University more detailed information that can make treatment decisions simpler, including 3D models that give doctors a clearer picture of growing tumors.

More detailed images can show doctors fast-growing tumors and those that can wait for treatment.

Personalized care: 'This is really the future of medicine'

At Duke symposium, personalized medicine experts lay out a vision about how advances in genomics will revolutionize healthcare.

Duke charts personalized care

UNC Chancellor talks startups with iContact co-founder

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp, a veteran entrepreneur and inventor himself, chats with Ryan Allis, a Carolina Alumnus and co-founder of iContact, about building successful new companies in a video blog.

UNC tapped to lead national effort to find AIDS cure

Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill have been awarded a $32 million federal grant to develop ways to cure people with HIV - considered a critical component to finding a cure for AIDS.

The Arctic and you: Why changes there will affect not just polar bears

Ahead of the "Who 'owns the Arctic?" conference being put on by Duke and UNC-CH on Wednesday, a look at issues that could affect all of us.

Who owns the Arctic?

STEM News from YouTube, Lenovo, AT&T, Google, more

YouTube, Lenovo announces Space Lab winners; AT&T commits $250 Million to education; Google, ASU team up again for Western NC Gravity Games; Opinion: Making STEM education work for North Carolina.

PPD founder gives $2.5M to UNC School of Pharmacy

The school is already named after Fred Eshelman, who donated $20 million to UNC in 2003. He has now provided $35 million in funding, service and gifts.

NCSU study: Ads in mobile apps create security, privacy risks

Researchers at NC State say the inclusion of ads in mobile applications found at Google Play's Android market opened up users' devices to malicious code.

UNC kidney cancer researchers land $843,000

Kidney cancer research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is getting a funding boost from SAIC-Frederick with the goal of developing new treatments for renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer in adults.

Chinese firm picks NCSU for wind power research center

China Ming Yang Wind Power Group will locate its North American research and development center at N.C. State's Centennial Campus.