DURHAM, North Carolina, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Highly competitive national awards will help new and returning BME graduate students and post-docs conduct exciting research * * * Graduate students and researchers in Duke Biomedical Engineering had a successful summer 2024, garnering prestigious national awards and funding opportunities to support their impressive research. Among the new major funded awards were 11 Nati  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: * * * Health care providers weighed in on the impacts of SB20 and the danger in further restricting abortion access * * * Today, Governor Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable discussion highlighting the current reproductive care landscape in North Carolina and the harmful impacts of Senate Bill 20, the abortion ban passed last year by North Carolina Republicans. The group also  more

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 29 -- Methodist University issued the following news release: Methodist University and Cape Fear Valley Health are teaming up once again to positively impact health care in the region - creating a partnership that will enhance the supply and retention of registered nurses in North Carolina. Through financial support of $15,000 from North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC-AHEC), Methodist University's Nursing program and Cape Fear Valley Health has st  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * The award will be used to develop AI algorithms to design proteins that can precisely bind and modify proteins associated with undruggable diseases * * * By Michaela Martinez Pranam Chatterjee received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health. Given to NIH Outstanding Investigators, the award provides $1.25 million in fundin  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: A new study finds that the extent to which U.S. adults support newly appointed justices to the Supreme Court strongly influences the extent to which they support the high court as an institution. "Prior to this study, nobody had really investigated the extent to which the way people view the high court is influenced by the way they feel about new justices," says Elizabeth Lane, co-au  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: A new study of organizations that claim to provide residential opioid substance use services in North Carolina found that only 12% of the organizations were licensed by the state to provide residential substance use treatment. What's more, only about a quarter of the organizations even allowed patients to access the only treatment for opioid use disorder proven to reduce overdose deat  more