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Carolina Stories

Portrait of Heather Wasser with a blue background.

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Applying global research to local disasters

Tazanna Jones stands on campus of UNC-Chapel Hill wearing a hot pink dress.

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Blue Sky Scholar loves the law

Lyric Locklear in front of the Old Well.

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Lumbee senior focuses on traditional ways of healing

Portrait of woman with brown hair smiling up against a two-toned blue background.

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Ask a Professor: Julia Rager on urban wildfire risks

Aerial view of MAHEC buildings in Asheville.

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UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC responds to Helene

A portrait of Kathleen DuVal, smiling, on a cream background with a blue textured circle.

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Professor wins Cundill History Prize

Portrait of Professor Blair Kelley on a Carolina blue background

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Ask a Professor: Blair Kelley on the Black working class

Barry Popkin poses for the camera, seated on a bench outdoors.

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Ask a Professor: Barry Popkin on regulating food marketing

A portrait of Carpentier on a two-toned blue background graphic.

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Ask a Professor: Francesca Dillman Carpentier on the effect of media messages

Sharon Lawrence stands outside PlayMakers Repertory Company.

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One-woman show spotlights Sharon Lawrence

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

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