Category Archives: Research

Overview RENCI encourages North Carolina middle school and high school students to pursue research in the areas of engineering and computing through its sponsorship of the Innovation and Technology Award for North Carolina Science and Engineering Regional Fairs.The award recognizes students whose projects demonstrate high standards in technology and/or engineering, giving special consideration to projects […]

Overview The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual laboratory at the frontiers of network science and engineering. Using a combination of widely-distributed resources connected with bandwidth-on-demand regional and global networks, GENI enables the worldwide research community—including academia, industry and the public—to test ideas and clean-slate designs to envision future internets at scale. […]

Overview The mission of the MSI Network is to increase access to, awareness and utilization of advanced computing and communication technologies within communities that have been traditionally underrepresented in the technology revolution. These communities include faculty, students and staff at minority serving institutions (MSIs), which include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), […]

Overview When an ice storm hit the Triangle area in December 2002, thousands of homes lost power. Worse, utility trucks were slowed in their efforts to restore power because many were located outside the affected area and could not travel on ice-covered roads. A better ability to predict ice storms could have put the trucks […]

Overview Brunswick County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state of North Carolina—and one of the most vulnerable to flash floods caused by hurricanes and storm surges. With its growing population, the county faces challenges when evacuating people, especially those with medical needs, before a hurricane or storm surge. Many roadways that […]

Overview The Outpatient Health Monitoring System (OHMS) is a remote wireless networking device that measures a patient’s daily chronic condition, such as asthma, as well as environmental factors (airborne particulates, pollution, humidity and temperature). OHMS seeks to empower patients with chronic diseases and their doctors to work together on health maintenance and management and on […]

Overview Traditionally, bioinformatics has been organized around the concepts of genes and gene products, typically proteins, that are analyzed by similarity of amino acids. However, proteins contain functional domains that define their activity and mode of regulation. Evolution occurs through the process of deletion, insertion, and transfer of these domains as well as by mutations at individual sites. Databases of functional […]

Overview The Melanoma Project aimed to provide the technological infrastructure to support 21st century genomic research. Its target audience is researchers who study the response of human DNA to exposure to genotoxins, such as radiation from prolonged exposure to the sun. The aim of these researchers is to create a biologically faithful model of the […]

Overview When patients are checked into a hospital intensive care unit (ICU), they are monitored and given an overall assessment of their likelihood of recovery. The evaluation is helpful in determining which patients are the most critically ill or injured, however, current technology does not enable the ICU to update this initial assessment. Although heart […]

Overview The Carolina Center for Exploratory Genetic Analysis (CCEGA) focused on developing an interdisciplinary infrastructure to identify the complex genetic traits that underly human diseases, bringing together data from clinical studies, population studies and model systems. CCEGA believes the next breakthroughs in our understanding of biology and disease will be made possible by the integrated […]