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Check out photos and videos capturing life on campus and the great work done by Tar Heels.

  • Nightime view of the Old Well decorated with holiday lights on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill as red and white long-exposure car lights of passing-by vehicles on Cameron Avenue are seen in the foreground.

    Lighting up the Old Well

    Carolina is getting into the holiday spirit, and the Old Well's new seasonal look shows as much. Workers from Facilities Services recently added holiday lights to the iconic campus symbol, which now shines a little brighter as the end of the year approaches.

    (Johnny Andrews/University Communications)

  • Three sail boats on a lake, all with white sails and the interlocked

    Video: Tar Heel sailors teach students the ropes

    The UNC-Chapel Hill Sailing Club runs regular beginner clinics and races against other colleges.

  • Archival image from the 1990s of students walking around the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Neon-color graphic text reads

    Carolina throwback: the 1990s

    Hit the rewind button to a time when neon windbreakers, baggy pants and Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts were in style as Tar Heels surfed the World Wide Web using massive Compaqs and Gateways.

  • A still image from drone footage of the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on a fall day. Prominently displayed are the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower and a Kenan Stadium (a football stadium). In the foreground are trees with orange, brown, yellow and green leaves and a Carolina Blue water tower. Text is overlayed, reading,

    Video: Carolina in the fall

    The change of seasons has Carolina’s campus brimming with fall colors from all angles.

  • Macio family on the beach at sunset.

    Clinic offers hope for ‘butterflies’

    In this video, meet patients known by the nickname who receive holistic care at the UNC Turner Syndrome Clinic.

  • A hand holding a candle at an indoor memorial service in a basketball arena.

    Unsung heroes provided protection, care

    During this semester’s lockdowns, the Carolina community responded with compassion and professionalism.

  • Agora Fellows do democracy better

    Two dozen Carolina students from different political ideologies promote constructive dialogue on campus. 

  • Six-photo collage with pictures of: a man setting up a measurement tool on land near a river; an aerial view of a winding river in New Zealand; two researchers wearing life vests and standing on the edge of a large rock while placing a measurement tool in a river; a researcher configuring a large GPS system to a boat; a man and a woman riding in a helicopter; two researchers configuring a measurement rod in a river.

    Measuring water from space

    The first satellite to measure Earth’s surface water launched late 2022, and Tamlin Pavelsky's team is verifying its data.