Clean water for all
Professor Theo Dingemans and the Sustainable Access to Clean Water Creativity Hub are changing the way water is made safe for populations around the world.
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Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Concussion care on the front lines
A current multidisciplinary initiative led by Carolina’s Jason Mihalik is tracking neurological function in elite warfighters. In August 2008, high school athlete Matthew Gfeller sustained a fatal traumatic brain injury during his first varsity football game. One year later, Matthew’s family and friends turned their grief into hope by funding the creation of the Matthew
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Legant named 2019 Packard Fellow
Wesley Legant of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the UNC School of Medicine is one of 22 early-career scientists and engineers who will each receive $875,000 over five years from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to pursue their research.
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‘Service to the state’ theme threads through University Day
During the annual University Day ceremony at Memorial Hall, Carolina celebrated its founding and its mission to serve the state.
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Graduate student profile: Jeromy Rech
Jeromy Rech, a doctoral student in chemistry, recognizes how influential teaching and mentorship can be in making major life decisions. He says advice from mentors has opened him up to new possibilities, including enriching experiences in graduate school.
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Student feature: Allie Omens
Senior Allie Omens, a public policy and environmental studies major, spends her free time at Carolina tackling environmental issues, including working toward a waste-free campus.
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Grant will help researchers examine how to use voice assistant devices in post-treatment cancer care
A multidisciplinary team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers received a grant to support research on how to monitor and provide feedback to post-treatment cancer patients, using a combination of radio and audio sensing technologies.
Big wins for physics and astronomy
Three professors in the department of physics and astronomy have won big awards from the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society.
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Two Carolina seniors promote everyday kindness
These two Carolina seniors want everyone to feel like they have a place to belong. So they started All Caring Together, a club dedicated to everyday kindness.
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KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half; UNC is part of international collaboration
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. The KATRIN experiment is based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and involves international collaborators including UNC-Chapel Hill.