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Caroline Robinson stands outside the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Graduating college as a student and former patient

Blue Sky Scholar Zoey Ainsworth poses for an outdoor portrait.

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Learning with heart

Four Morehead-Cain Scholars pose seated on a picnic table with trees and a lake in the background.

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Innovating AI services for the aging

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

Maribel Borger and other members of the Rural Medicine Pathway Program stand outside of the home they helped remove debris from.

4 min read

Aligned with the mission

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

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

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

2 min read

A passion for math leads to a new path

Osman in a suit smiling.

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Empowering humanity through technology

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

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She sees a future in optometry

D.J. Murphy smiles outdoors.

2 min read

Leadership skills for a better tomorrow

Fellows from Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows.

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Southern voices, future leaders