Topple a paradigm. Uncover the Unknown. Tar Heels ask questions, develop answers, create solutions and discover cures.
More than 225 years ago, a radical idea took root in North Carolina: higher education, funded by the people, for the people. As we enter the third decade of this millennium, the challenges we face today are great, but, as we have demonstrated for more than two centuries, we are built to face great challenges.
Carolina undergraduates Kate Leo and Hannah Tuckman launched an effort to provide students with first-aid kits, streamline campus health care information and resources.
All the world’s a stage, but what happens when the world is in lockdown?
Carolina experts explain why it’s so difficult for minorities to become entrepreneurs and why now may be the perfect time to even the playing field.
Food allergies have long baffled scientists — much is still to be learned about how they develop and why certain people are more susceptible than others. Researchers may be able to answer some of these questions by studying an unusual food allergy to mammalian meat.
The longest-running shark survey in the U.S. takes place off the coast of North Carolina. After nearly 50 years, Carolina researchers are still making discoveries.
A Carolina professor weaves together personal experience, observations of others and history in examining how the pandemic degraded our ideas about the elderly and gave us a taste of old age.
Experts discuss privacy issues as governments around the globe explore how technology and data analytics can enable effective contact tracing to slow the pandemic.