News and Features
Conor Kerr is teaming up student statisticians with UNC’s varsity sports
A junior, Kerr founded the Sports Analysis Intelligence Laboratory to connect undergraduates with a passion for statistics with opportunities through Carolina Athletics.
2023 PARE Award Recipients
Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Meet this year’s recipients, including those in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Welcome Home, Tar Heels
For more than 8,000 students, this week is the start of their Tar Heel journeys. For thousands more, it’s a return to the place they’ve learned to love.
Using “optical tweezers” to advance nanomedicine
Zijie Yan, associate professor of applied physical sciences, is using light to tackle significant challenges in the field of nanoscience.
Rising senior Sarah Vickers researches “ghost particles”
Her work to help detect neutrinoless double beta decay could help explain why there is significantly more matter than antimatter in the universe
Supporting Carolina researchers
To expand UNC-Chapel Hill’s capacity to pursue team science, the Office of Research Development (ORD) fosters collaboration, accelerates innovation, and supports groundbreaking discoveries.
Student musicians go from playing to teaching
At the UNC Summer Jazz Workshop, recent, current and incoming Carolina music students grow as educators and showcase the music department.