More AP Classes May Not be Better Study: you don’t need 10 or 12 college-level courses to get into UNC.

Helping Children Heal How kids cope with trauma and what educators can do to help.

Exploring Life's Limits on Earth How life survives in places it seemingly shouldn't. (UNC home page)

10: Signal to Noise We know more about fragile X syndrome than any other piece of the autism puzzle. How close are we to a cure?

9: The Deal with DHA How do the nutrients we get in the womb and in the early parts of our lives affect our brains?

8: The Ease of Buying Booze Underage drinkers buy alcohol using a sophisticated technology called the internet.

7: Water Worries The top 5 water problems facing North Carolina and the world.

6: People of the Book Carl Ernst explains some of the Qur'an’s most confusing passages.

5: The Future of the Outer Banks North Carolina's barrier islands are on the move.

4: Driving Through Time The Blue Ridge Parkway as you've never seen it.

3: Introducing EoE An esophageal disease that's on the rise and tough to diagnose.

2: The Swamp Fox Bland Simpson: the unofficial chronicler of the Outer Coastal Plain.

"From Lionfish Hunter to Little Miss Marine Biologist:" Serena Hackerott blogs about her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship experience. (Office for Undergraduate Research)

Rachel Myrick is the latest UNC-Chapel Hill winner of the Rhodes Scholarship. The student body V.P. and Morehead-Cain scholar has worked in a domestic violence shelter in Belize, designed and taught her own course at Carolina, and organized a TED conference on campus. Radio program The State of Things speaks with Myrick about her experiences. (WUNC-FM)

Playing favorites: Stories that will stay with me through the New Year. (Mark My Words) One word or two: Three confusing expressions, explained. (Blargon Jog)

"It's not like all the businesses that used to be in Washington state found it now way more worthwhile to relocate to Idaho and take advantage of the lower minimum wage." —T. William Lester, in New Year Brings Minimum Wage Hikes in 10 States (National Public Radio)

Myron Cohen: 2012 Tar Heel of the Year (News and Observer) Campus incubators hatching ventures (UNC home page) Study shows increase in negative messages about Muslims in the media (UNC News Services) Study paves way to design drugs aimed at multiple targets (UNC Health Care)

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