Greg Copenhaver News Today

When Duke molecular plant biologist Lucia Strader gathered regional academic, commercial and non-profit scientists on a Zoom call in summer 2022, her mission for the group was to seek funds to launch a climate-smart agriculture corridor in central North Carolina. The National Science Foundation grant that Strader hoped for didn’t pan out, but what had started as a loose association of like-minded scientists sharing ideas on a video call began to coalesce into a tight social group united in a c...

Greg Copenhaver, Ph.D., has been named director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for Convergent Science (ICS). Convergent science supports the Discover initiative in the University’s strategic plan, Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good, with the Institute for Convergent Science providing a new innovation framework based on a convergent approach to

If you are like most people in this country, you have spent more time sheltering in place during the pandemic than you could have possibly imagined. Aside from COVID cabin fever over the past year, another pandemic-related phenomenon has emerged in this time like no other: the most head-scratching housing market since 2009. The current housing market reminds me of a famous television commercial from the 1980’s for “Crazy Eddie” home electronics and entertainment business. At the end of ev...