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  • Jaazaniah Catterall

    #GDTBATH: Jaazaniah Catterall

    As the first-year class coordinator for the UNC School of Law's pro bono program, Jaazaniah Catterall is helping his classmates to use their skills to provide free legal help to North Carolinians.

  • Diana Lee

    Carolina students connect with senior citizens

    Pharmacy student Diana Lee organized a phone-a-friend program that is connecting Tar Heels with some of the residents most impacted by social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders: senior citizens.

  • Students stand outside UNC Hospital.

    School of Medicine students rally to help health care workers

    From making PPE to organizing child care, UNC School of Medicine students are organizing volunteer projects all with one aim – help hospitals safely and effectively combat COVID-19.

  • A women on a laptop open to the Census website.

    Why the census matters

    Rebecca Tippett, the founding director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center, shares why the census is critical to American life and how UNC-Chapel Hill has been helping North Carolina prepare for the process.

  • A Carolina blue chair in front of the Well.

    Taking a seat with Carolina’s researchers

    Pull up a chair and meet a few of Carolina's graduate students who are working to improve the lives of North Carolinians.

  • Two men look at a document on a table.

    Preparing North Carolina’s future leaders

    Operated by the UNC School of Government, the Lead for North Carolina program is training future leaders to address problems facing North Carolinians by placing young professionals in local government offices.

  • A man works with chemistry equipment.

    Maker of molecules

    Polymer chemist Frank Leibfarth is rethinking plastics, with a focus on sustainability.

  • A nurse and doctor work at a drive-up testing facility.

    Carolina professor leads COVID-19 testing at UNC Medical Center

    Melissa Miller, director of the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Microbiology Labs, led the development of a COVID-19 test for the UNC Medical Center that will help ease demand on State Health Department and LabCorp.