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  • Graphic of two autonomous vehicles.

    Disruptive driving

    Two Carolina researchers are raising some important questions about the impacts — both positive and negative — that autonomous vehicles will have on our daily lives and public health.

  • Photo of beekeeper's hands holding a section of the hive covered in bees.

    The campus beekeeper

    For the past seven years, Anne Cabell has been the official beekeeper of the hive kept at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Carolina Campus Community Garden.

  • Student signs a poster board.

    Ten years of impact

    For a decade, the Carolina College Advising Corps has helped increase college enrollment across North Carolina

  • A stack of tortillas in a factory.

    Growth from the ground up

    A Robeson County tortilla manufacturer is ready to increase his production from 25,000 pounds of tortillas a week to 120,000 pounds. UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA student Ben Holmes is helping him do just that through NCGrowth.

  • Male and female researchers in wader boots work in a water-logged area.

    UNC researchers respond to Hurricane Matthew

    Hurricane Matthew proved to be on of the most destructive hurricanes in decades as it delivered 350 millimeters of rain over just 24 hours in North Carolina alone.

  • Students read water sample results.

    A RAPID Response to Hurricane Matthew

    Flooding from Hurricane Matthew caused $1.5 billion in damage to 100,000 North Carolina houses, businesses, and government buildings.

  • Austin Ludwig and Mason Ludwig play at a desk.

    Brotherly love, no matter what

    Austin Ludwig, whose little brother has autism, is now helping researchers sequence genomes of 50,000 people with autism through an ambitious research project in collaboration with the UNC TEACCH Autism Program.

  • Lucy Brown speaks on stage.

    A new facility for UNC Horizons

    The state-of-the-art facility solidifies UNC Horizons as a world leader in treating women with substance use disorder, addressing underlying trauma and all the while keeping the women with their children.