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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

A selfie of Chloe with the western North Carolina mountains in fall in the background

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Inspiring future scientists

Raegan Murphy smiling and working in a garden.

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Growing, growing until it's gone

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

A violinist plays in an auditorium while a person wears a cap with multiple sensors during a brain mapping performance.

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When music meets the mind

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

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A lifetime of giving

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

A portrait of the late Joan Gillings. Joan is leaning into the frame from the left and looking into the distance.

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A legacy of excellence, strength and opportunity

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

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From riverbanks to labs

Alt text: Rhiannon Giddens (Photo by Ebru Yildiz)

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Advocacy, connection and joy: highlights from Rhiannon Giddens

Giddens and Justin Robinson host a jam session outside of Wilson Library.

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Up close with Rhiannon Giddens