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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

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

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Tar Heels connect through Carolina College Advising Corps

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

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Aligned with the mission

Carolina students throw caps into the air with fireworks in the background during commencement at Kenan Memorial Stadium.

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Rewind: The top 12 photos of 2024

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

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

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A passion for math leads to a new path

Senior Rachel Geyer is researching why some corals grow more complex skeletons and how that might make them more resilient.

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Student’s research to help endangered coral

Man peers down at his phone in one hand while being surrounded by trees.

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Senior researches cicadas’ impact on local food web

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Going beyond degree completion

A closeup of fingers holding a small fish in a clear plastic sample box

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From riverbanks to labs