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Nabarun Dasgupta stands smiling with arms crossed with a colorful artwork in the background.

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Nabarun Dasgupta wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Blue Sky Scholar Zoey Ainsworth poses for an outdoor portrait.

4 min read

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

UNC alumni Heath Massey (BA ’83), left, and John Mitchener (BSBA ’81).

4 min read

New eminent professorship to support melanoma research

Portrait of Alexander Tropsha wearing a light blue button down shirt.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Alexander Tropsha on AI tools for drug discovery

Black and white portrait of Nabarun Dasgupta.

5 min read

The objective? Save lives.

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

Jeffrey Stringer sits in a chair and smiles facing the camera with ultrasound images patterned on the wall behind him.

8 min read

AI innovation in obstetrics

Marisa Porto sits at a desk wearing a bright blue suit jacket with a black undershirt. She has one hand placed on her laptop and the other around a mug.

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Ask a Professor: Marisa Porto on AI in the newsroom

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

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Bring Broadway to Carolina

Meg Zomorodi smiles for a portrait in front of the Old Well.

2 min read

Supporting nursing in our rural communities