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Researchers forecast 150% rise in developed land in Triangle/Rocky Mount region by 2040

A study by researchers RENCI at UNC Charlotte researchers shows 570 percent increase in developed land since 1976.

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Renowned historian and cyberinfrastructure pioneer to speak March 29

Orville Vernon Burton, a Clemson University history professor and renowned expert on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil war era, race relations and the history of the American South, will speak from 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., March 29 in room 141 of the Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Building, 201 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill.

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RENCI seeks proposals for Duke visualization program

RENCI is seeking a new Duke University research team to participate in the RENCI at Duke Faculty Engagement Program in Applied Scientific and Information Visualization.

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Computer scientist and pioneer of high-speed molecular dynamics simulations to speak at Carolina

David E. Shaw’s special-purpose supercomputer could help researchers understand malfunctions underlying many diseases.

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Coastal flood risks, present and future

Scientists can’t control coastal flooding caused by storm surge. But they can help government agencies and the public understand the risks from storm surge and wind waves in vulnerable areas like North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

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RENCI at UNC Charlotte studies Charlotte neighborhoods and the Great Recession

Researchers RENCI’s UNCC Engagement Center find that recession hits harder in neighborhoods with lower quality of life scores.

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Modeling the Perfect Fluid

This visualization starts with particles from a nuclear collision that are compressed and heated up to create a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), which looks like a “blob” in the video. Once the QGP expands and cools down, it decays again into particles that can be measured by the research team’s experiments. This is a so-called “hybrid’ model, […]

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RENCI, Duke to build experimental networking infrastructure

CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 9, 2011–RENCI at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University in partnership with IBM will lead a new project to build a nationwide test bed for networking and networked cloud computing.

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RENCI networking pros tapped for project to design the future Internet

RENCI’s networking research group is part of a team that will design a blueprint for a future version of the Internet.

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Exploring the genetics of schizophrenia

RENCI’s Clark Jeffries and Dr. Diana Perkins of the UNC School of Medicine’s psychiatry department talk about their research that examines the genetic basis of schizophrenia in a Radio In Vivo interview.

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