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Beyond the Lab, Some of UNC’s Brightest Young Minds are Cultivating Community

Defects in a Semiconductor Material Open New Pathways for Renewable Energy Innovation

New Material Could Change the Way Electronic Devices Interface with Living Tissues

Wearable Patch Promises Early, Non-Invasive Detection of Skin Diseases

UNC Startup Redefining Mental Health Treatment with Eye-Tracking Technology

On a Personal Mission, Student Aims to Transform Dialysis Treatment

Explore an Engineering Career with the B.S. in Applied Sciences 

Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials Could Improve Medical Implants

Creativity Hubs Award Funds New Implantable Device Promising Advances in Chronic Disease Management

Small Materials, Big Innovations

Wubin Bai awarded 2024 Hettleman Prize

WinSPIRE Program Shaping a Diverse Future in Science and Technology

Zijie Yan Remembered as Master of Light and Matter

Creativity Hubs Project to Fund Battery Research

Jinsong Huang on Current State of Solar Energy

Breakthrough Membrane Technology Could Make Dialysis Portable

APS Researchers Identify Optimal Sealant for Protecting Solar Cells

Jinsong Huang’s Research Team Receives UNC System Grant

From Sci-Fi Fan to Science Researcher, This APS Student is Illuminating the Brain’s Secrets

Fun Experiments in a Friend’s Garage Fueled a Fascination with Materials Engineering

An Innovative Chemical Treatment Improves Efficiency of a Promising Solar Technology

APS Scientists Create Soft Robots Mimicking Human Skin to Provide Medical Treatment

APS Student Receives Scholarship for Research on Promising Battery Technology

How a Pinball Project and a Lesson in Engineering Design Made Lucy Ren’s Education Click

Through the APSE Minor, a Nature Enthusiast Molds an Environmental Engineering Career

Manager of European Union Project Joins APS Effort to Fulfill Potential of a Solar Technology

APS Doctoral Student Receives Impact Award for Research on Advanced Imaging Technology

UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers Create Artificial Cells That Act Like Living Cells

UNC Researchers Receive Grant to Test Blood Oxygen Device for Patients of Color

APS Educators Share Their Methods at Conference Promoting Innovative Thinking

APS Courses on Careers Put a Future in Focus for a Physics Phenom

Drug Delivery Platform Manipulating Amyloid Proteins Key to Alzheimer’s Treatment

APS to offer undergraduate degree in applied sciences in fall 2024

Get to know MakerFest, UNC’s celebration of Tar Heel makers

In Study, Wearable Drug Patch Shows Promise For Alzheimer’s Treatment

In Ronit Freeman’s Class, Student Creates Pollution-Free Light Bulb

Advanced Imaging Technology Promises Greater Diagnostic Accuracy, Less Radiation

Behavior of Well-Known Protein Provides Clues to How Cells Sense Their Shape

North Carolina Public Radio Features BeAM and Hillsborough Hospital Partnership

Students to Display Projects at BeAM MakerFest on December 5

APS Faculty Receive $20,000 UNC Idea Grant to Study Crowd Safety Measures

APS Student Tests the Limits of an Ancient Artform to Increase Aircraft Range

APS Study Finds Specialized Chemicals Would Increase Efficiency of Solar Cells

Remembering a Transformational Scientist and Bright Star

From the APS Chair: reflections and visions

“URSkilled” workshops promote research skills, entrepreneurial mindset

Using “optical tweezers” to advance nanomedicine

Meet perovskite, the new and improved ‘solar sandwich’ that may lead to a more stable solar panel

EMERGE Annual Workshop supports the future of engineering programming

Engineering Discoveries & Applied Sciences

APS contributes to celebrating undergraduate research at Carolina

New collaborative research may create more accessible, efficient solar energy applications

APS-MRS career panel offers professional networking, fosters alumni relations

New design strategies to improve the stability and efficiency of bifacial perovskite solar cells

View photos from the Spring 2023 MakerFest

Building a toolbox for success with the APSE minor and BeAM

Lessons learned: identifying solutions for success through the APSE minor and BeAM

48-hour Sci-athon offers interdisciplinary student collaboration

PhD candidate selected for prestigious fellowship program

Communities of practice at BeAM use peer-to-peer learning to deepen skills

Students inspire and unite local community at the UNC Science Expo, part of larger statewide initiative

Evolving candy crush: New paper shows omicron relies more on sugars for infection

Self-powered photon counting detector may facilitate safer medical imaging and clearer photos in low light environments

Helping to shape entrepreneurial mindset at the KEEN National Conference

APS graduate student learning commercialization skills via internship

Embracing a global engineering mindset

At the intersection of dentistry and BeAM MakerSpace technologies

Engineering a bright future with a minor in applied sciences and engineering

Allen Wood recognized for Best Oral Presentation at ETI Workshop

Pégard receives prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship

Freeman receives Cottrell Scholar Award

Student leaders in Applied Physical Sciences help build graduate student community

Bloomable robot, folding electronics enhance patient treatment

Nico Pégard Selected for Kavli Innovation Grant

From BeAM to Procter & Gamble: Prototyping, Professional Skills, and Passion

View photos from the Fall 2022 MakerFest

BeAM enhances capabilities with gift of RYOBI power tools

Jinsong Huang recognized among the world’s most highly cited researchers of 2022

Rick Bradley’s Vision for Collaboration and Creativity: BeAM@Carmichael Makerspace

Redesigned pulse oximeter advances more equitable healthcare

From research to application: Interning at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Great Turnout at the 2022 APS Research Symposium

View photos from the APS Research Symposium 2022

Melissa Gammon Wins National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) Staff Award

PI Klotsa leads DoE grant from the Biomolecular Materials Program

A Maker Mindset

Bioelectronics meets medicine

Impacting the field of perovskite research

Loftin named University Manager of the Year

APS graduate student recognized by global society

Engineering the entrepreneurial mindset

New minor teaches major skills in engineering, entrepreneurship

Digital training improves dental care, turns students into inventors

All in the eyes

View photos from the APS Research Symposium 2021

APS and Chemistry students lead Science in the Stacks outreach

Anna Engelke wins UNC Pinnacle Award

Huang group advances understanding of trap states in perovskite solar cells

UNC research team develops low-cost COVID-19 test

Pegard and Bai research groups selected for UNC Neurospark Research Award

Sugar-coated COVID-19 test takes advantage of coronavirus’ sweet tooth

COVID-19 gets its just desserts with sugar-coated test strips

Jinsong Huang research recognized among the world’s most highly cited researchers

Professor Theo Dingemans part of an interdisciplinary team of scientists working on desalination membrane

APS students and alumni contribute to a book on perovskite photovoltaics and optoelectronics

Professor Nico Pegard has joined with clinical and basic scientists to study stress-related psychiatric disorders as part of the Carolina Stress Initiative

Zhenyi Ni recognized in Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence

Huang research featured in Nature Communications-Energy

Ronit Freeman, Jim Hagood awarded grant by Eshelman Institute for Innovation to pursue research in lung fibrosis

Is there a market for your discovery? What patent landscaping and market research can tell you.

National Science Foundation selects Carolina for I-Corps

Dr. Zhenyi Ni of Applied Physical Sciences receives Postdoc Award for Research Excellence

The wondrous world of Carolina’s makers

Carolina again tops $1 billion in research awards

Printed Prosthodontics & More: 7 Questions with Wendy Clark

Long live the perovskite module

Meet Some of Our APSE Graduates

Nick Lauersdorf Awarded NDSEG Fellowship

Transforming Medical Imaging Devices

UNC Graduate Schools Information Fair

Celebrating Black History Month

Rich Goldberg Receives University Teaching Award

Xun Xiao receives Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award

Daphne Klotsa: Cooperation over Competition

Anna Fraser Receives 2020 RTNN Student Award

Making Perovskite Solar Cells with Kodak Printers

Prof. Klotsa Featured in Research UNCovered

Huang lab: world-record solar module efficiency

Jinsong Huang is 2020 Highly Cited Researcher

Kyle Riker Wins TSRC Best Poster

Maggie Daly Wins Poster Presentation

How Crisis Sparks and Speeds Innovation

Expert Prototypers with Glenn Walters

Stephen Klawa Receives Chemistry TA Award

CHANL: Carrie Donley Receives RTNN Award

BeAM Keeps Tar Heels Creating

Hossein Eybposh Receives OSA Travel Grant

How Brain Flexibility Emerges in Infants

CHANL: NSF Renews $5.5mil Nanotech Grant

Record Year for Research at UNC

Reduced Self-Doping of Perovskites

Pégard Designated OSA Senior Member

Editors’ suggestion incl. Klotsa group paper

Approaches to detect, mitigate COVID-19

Prof. Huang Named Distinguished Professor

APS Partners with KEEN

Hossein Eybposh Wins OSA Paper Prize

APS Response to National Events

Prof. Goldberg Celebr-ates 20 Years at UNC

Freeman, Forest study lungs & Covid-19

Makerspaces join forces on COVID-19

Glenn Walters on 3D Printing & Education

Perovskite Technology Consortium

Joining forces on face shields

APS Students Receive Fellowships

Freeman Article is ACS Editors’ Choice

Fire up the engine

APS Professors Run in Faculty Elections

Coming Together to Print Solutions

Innovating to Inspire Hope

Pandemic Lessons and Convergent Science

Professor Huang Tackles the Perovskite Solar Cell Trap State

BeAM makes face shields for health care workers

UNC Students Make PPE

Klotsa group publishes “paper of the month” in Soft Matter

Prof. Freeman wins CMC 2019 Collaborative Innovation Award

Pégard Lab Student Wins Poster Competition

Nazockdast article on cover of Cytoskeleton

Klotsa Group article on the cover of Soft Matter

Master of Adaptation

Carolina Postdoctoral Program For Faculty Diversity Application

APS Spotlight: Clean water for all

APS Research Advances Solar Energy

Press Release: Dynamic structures

Anna Fraser Awarded NSF Fellowship

Ryan Fox Receives DOE Award

UNC #5 in nation for research funding

Faculty Innovator: Ronit Freeman

Sustainable Water Access

From Swimmer to Swarms