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

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Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Students clear debris in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. One student stands smiling at the camera while holding a shovel.

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Mentors, mountains and a mission

Nathan Townsend stands on a professional baseball field on a sunny day.

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Intern shares analytics model with Japanese baseball team

Dr. Frederick Bowman Jr. sits in a lounge chair at his home in Chapel Hill.

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A lifetime of giving

A collage showing Roy Williams as he is now on the left and as a Carolina student on the right.

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Paying it forward

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

Ilana Finley sits on a stool in front of a white cloth backdrop.

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‘Carolina gave me so much’

An action shot of Gigi Cloney wearing boxing gloves

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‘Serendipitous’ Support

Daniel Bowen (right) meets with Ross Tompkins, assistant to the town manager, to discuss Chapel Hill's sustainability initiative.

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Giving back to the community

Chris Gray and Sara Daavettila stand side by side in front of a blue swath.

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Academic and Athletic Excellence

Rich and Tracy DeSelm smiling for a photo.

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Honoring a father and coach