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Research and Innovation

Topple a paradigm. Uncover the Unknown. Tar Heels ask questions, develop answers, create solutions and discover cures.

  • Vanderkamp display

    On the job training

    How an Ackland staffer is using 3D imaging software and the campus makerspaces to create custom mounts for art.

  • Two students use a 3D printer.

    Campus creators

    UNC-Chapel Hill’s Be a Maker program is a network of makerspaces where Carolina’s maker community design and make physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation.

  • A women measures a shark.

    At Carolina, Shark Week lasts for decades

    Researchers at Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City conduct the longest-running shark survey in the United States.

  • Amy Stursberg, Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Judith Cone hold a framed certificate

    Blackstone celebrates RTP partnership, foundation for future growth

    For six years, the organization focused on finding Carolina students and faculty members with bright ideas and connected them to experienced entrepreneurs and investors.

  • Three women talks in an office.

    Tar Heel interns

    Internships serve as important ways for students to gain work experience in their chosen field, but because they often are unpaid, many students may have to forgo the experience. Carolina is working to ensure that students can participate, regardless of their financial situation.

  • Daira Melendez fills a bottle of water in the Galapagos.

    Internship grant supports 175 students this summer

    Carolina's Summer Internship Grant helps students pay for their living expenses while they gain work experience in their fields.

  • A man looks at a medical container..

    Fighting emerging diseases

    Utilizing the expertise of the Baric Lab at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Gilead Sciences is making breakthroughs in developing drugs to fight some of the world’s deadliest viruses.

  • Students walk in the Makerspace.

    Students learn to build the perfect prototype, one failure at a time

    A new course is introducing Carolina students to state-of-the-art technology, while also proving that hard work and perseverance through failure can be rewarding.