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Health and Medicine

Past its prime

While Berryhill Hall was a new medical education building in the 1970s, the building’s limitations – both in size and design – are impediments to overcome for today's medical students.

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    Anorexia has been misunderstood by lay people and by the professional community for a very long time, says psychologist Cynthia Bulik.

  • Whitney Noble by the Old Well.

    C-STEP: Whitney Noble

    Whitney Noble has long felt a calling to help people through the field of health care. While pursuing an associate’s degree in nursing from Wilmington’s Cape Fear Community College, Noble was drawn to the Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program to make that goal a reality. C-STEP is a pathway for talented low- and moderate-income high school and community college students that has helped more than 1,200 students transfer to Carolina.

  • Jamshaid Shahir standing in a lab.

    How to heal a broken heart

    Ph.D. candidate Jamshaid Shahir’s stem cell research is at the forefront of discovery in the field of computational biology, working to find a way to repair hearts damaged from heart attacks.