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Nicholas Law, head of the Argus Array project, poses with a telescope beneath the Milky Way

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Watching all the stars align

A conceptual rendering of the Argus Array telescope system

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Developing the world’s largest sky-survey telescope

A colorful illustration of a brain with social media icons and emojis inside it.

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Tips for parents to keep in mind when shopping for devices

Four dramatic art students stand on a subway staircase with Broadway posters in the background.

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Bring Broadway to Carolina

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

Matthew Thornton looks into the distance with the Bell Tower in the background.

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A passion for math leads to a new path

UNC School of Data Science faculty Alex McAvoy, Santiago Olivella and Harlin Lee.

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A mathematical biologist walks up to a farmer

D.J. Murphy smiles outdoors.

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Leadership skills for a better tomorrow

Fellows from Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows.

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Southern voices, future leaders

Charlotte Dorn stands on the coast wearing a U.N.C. hat.

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Entrepreneurial engineering

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Smarter Organ Transplants

Eric Weimer and Katherine Newhall stand together in a lab, looking at a tablet.

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Improving organ transplantation