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Carolina Stories

Gustavo Gonzalez

3 min read

Embracing every opportunity

Graduate Emma Cohn poses in front of the Well.

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A graduate's journey from Chapel Hill to New Zealand

Student working in lab.

3 min read

Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Siblings Elijah and Ilianamaria Brown

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Siblings guide the next generation

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

9 min read

The storytelling of art

Tung Nguyễn leans against a table in a lab at the Adams School of Dentistry

2 min read

Advancing a profession

Illustration of John Powell and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall from the shoulders up

6 min read

Honoring a pioneering scholar of the South

Kevin and Amy Guskiewicz sit on a lawn, with Kevin holding his dog Charlie on a leash.

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Honoring Chancellor Guskiewicz with a heartfelt farewell

Fiona Chen demonstrates how electronics work to youth in Franklinton.

2 min read

SECU Public Fellows internship brings science to Franklin County

Alisa Eanes points at an ultrasound

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Carolina Covenant Scholar becomes rural OB-GYN

Nora Elsayed and Hunter Vaughan stand side by side with arms crossed

5 min read

Leading now and into the future

Blue Sky Scholar Heather Norland poses in front of the Old Well

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She sees a future in optometry