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Portrait of Adriana Beltran.

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Reshaping genetics research

Portrait of Robert Laidlaw against a backdrop image of the Old Well.

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A lifetime of giving back

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

Portrait of Marisa Marraccini against a blue squiggle background.

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Ask a Professor: Marisa Marraccini on suicide prevention

A woman stands in an office setting with a map pin graphic that surrounds her in blue that reads "Tar Heels Everywhere" and "Singapore."

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Tar Heels Everywhere: Singapore

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

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

6 min read

Electric dialogue

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

Person in military uniform kneels down in field to handle drone equipment.

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Military grad student up for promotion

Jack Austin smiles for the camera wearing a button-down top and suit jacket in the atrium of a building.

6 min read

Another mission accomplished