GREENVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 14 -- East Carolina University issued the following news release: East Carolina University's College of Nursing and ECU Health are launching an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program, a new graduate-level certificate program that will prepare more specialized nurse practitioners in acute care settings across the state. "We have a lot of nurse practitioners in North Carolina who are doing amazing work to care for patients in ICUs and other very   more

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 14 -- The University of North Carolina-Asheville issued the following news: This fall, the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville will offer university-level classes led by professional writers in fiction writing, narrative poetry, satire, memoir and more. Courses will be taught in person and online, beginning with a range of starting dates from late August to October. Learn the conventions of short fiction, from generating ideas to submitting to journal  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Aug. 14 (TNSres) -- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University issued the following news: By Jordan Howse North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received $4.2 million for six years from the Division of Materials Research (DMR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund an interdisciplinary program aimed to enhance diversity in materials research. The Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program at  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 14 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: Researchers have established a suite of parameters that can be determined using ultrasound to quantitatively measure different physical characteristics of the lung. The researchers also demonstrated that the parameters can be used to accurately diagnose and assess the severity of lung diseases in an animal model. "Diseases can affect lungs in many different ways," says Marie Muller,   more