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Every day, Tar Heels find ways to leave their Heel print on campus and make our community stronger.

  • Photo of Addie Wilson on the roof of the Fedex Center holding a hive of bees.

    #GDTBATH: Addie Wilson

    Senior Addie Wilson has always been interested in environmentalism, but what that looked like changed after she learned about the Carolina Beekeeping Club.

  • North Carolina state flag

    Dry enough for you?

    With central North Carolina registering the driest spring on record, University climatologist Chip Konrad describes what caused the drought and offers a forecast for the summer.

  • UNC professor Francesca Tripodi

    How to improve your media literacy skills

    Sophisticated algorithms have changed the landscape of the internet, making media literacy a skill that needs to be constantly sharpened.

  • Guest host and female contestant on the set of

    Fast at the buzzer

    CITAP Executive Director Kathryn Peters, an expert in mis- and disinformation, gets the facts right on “Jeopardy!”

  • Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou sitting on a stone wall.

    A sharper image

    Carolina researchers Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou have spent the last two decades refining technology that makes X-ray machines smaller, faster, safer and sharper — research that’s changing the world of dentistry, medicine and security.

  • McNeil smiling at podium while she greets attendees at the 2017 African American History Month lecture. Photo by Jon Gardiner.

    Professor McNeil’s curve

    History professor Genna Rae McNeil will retire soon, leaving a legacy of scholarship, influential teaching, respectful discourse, advocacy for equality and, above all, students who go on to do great things.

  • Collage with pictures of six women and text reading

    Making faculty mentorship more equitable

    Carolina’s TEAM ADVANCE seeks to strengthen faculty pipelines by boosting mentoring for women, especially women of color.

  • Gaby Iori in her cap and gown.

    Saying goodbye to Carolina

    Gaby Iori considers her decision to transfer to Carolina one of the best decisions she's ever made. As her time as a student in Chapel Hill comes to a close, the graduating Tar Heel took one last trip around campus to say goodbye to some of the places she'll miss the most.