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Research and Innovation

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

  • A remote control car.

    UNC Children’s Hospital has a sweet new car

    Thanks to a donation from a pediatric surgeon, UNC Children’s Hospital is making the trip to the operating room a little less scary for kids and their parents.

    Watch the video to see how the car is helping young patients.

  • Rick Leuttich

    Forecasting the danger

    Press the play button to see how Carolina researchers have developed a leading tool for forecasting storm surge and coastal flooding during hurricanes.

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    Hanger management

    Carolina doctoral student Jennifer MacCormack studies how physical states impact human emotions. In her most recent study, she examined what makes people hangry.

    Press the play button for her tips for avoiding hanger.

  • Two students read a book.

    Learning from Frankenstein’s monster

    Undergraduate students from Jeanne Moskal's English 295 Honors class spent a semester using rare materials from the Wilson Special Collections Library to research and develop an exhibition on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

  • A student pets a dog.

    For the love of dog

    In a Maymester course, Carolina students examined the bonds between humans and dogs that are so familiar in Western culture but have neither been practiced worldwide nor for very long over the course of human history.

  • Edwina Koch

    Carolina student entrepreneur makes a Paris pitch

    Edwina Koch used an Innovate Carolina Dreamers-Who-Do sponsorship to compete in a business pitch competition hosted by Saint Louis University.

  • Two women talk to each other.

    Fostering entrepreneurship

    Carolina entrepreneurs and innovators are helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Through their ingenuity, they provide economic and social value in North Carolina and beyond

  • Student develops film.

    Students embrace the roots of photography

    In the age of digital photography, a group of Carolina students are sticking to the art's roots and working in a darkroom.