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Carolina Stories

Portrait of David Ardia with a Carolina blue and navy argyle graphic

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Ask a Professor: David Ardia on balancing innovation and regulation

Richard Saver poses for the camera with the law school building in the background

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Ask a Professor: Richard Saver on neural implants' intangible risks

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

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Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Kurt Ribisl smiles, facing the camera, with left hand on hip and the Gillings School of Global Public Health lobby blurred in the background.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Kurt M. Ribisl on big vape’s paper trail

RJ and Rameses point at the camera in a campus food pantry, with jars of peanut butter in the foreground.

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When competition feeds a cause

Shaun Anderson stands in the foreground with the Dean E. Smith Center in the background.

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Ask a Professor: Shaun Anderson on NIL and student-athletes’ growing support for social causes

Person with short auburn hand stands on the terrace of a building wearing a white collared blouse and black suit jacket.

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Ask a Professor: Maria Savasta-Kennedy on well water safety

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

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Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Ben Speas kneeling on the soccer field and pointing skyward in celebration.

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Carolina Champions: Ben Speas

A portrait of Sarah Dempsey.

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Ask a Professor: Sarah E. Dempsey

Carmichael Lobby dedication

3 min read

UNC coach’s legacy cemented forever

Eric Montross '94

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Eric Montross ’94 dies of cancer