A man sits on stage holding a guitar and surrounded by music stands.

Feeling the Music

Willie Payne works with blind and low-vision musicians to make music more accessible.
Josh Tacca, Greg Phillips, and Helen Huang

Symbiotic Strides

Helen Huang and her lab are building better prosthetics by enhancing them with robotics and AI.
Kara Hume

Fitness for All

After working with the autism community for over 30 years, Kara Hume is building a fitness program for people of varying abilities.
Karthik Ramakrishnan

RUNC: Karthik Ramakrishnan

Karthik Ramakrishnan harnesses physics to study diseases in the brain and the heart.
Lilly Nekervis, a senior undergraduate students, majoring in Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, poses with a robotic dog in a robotics lab.

Robot Reboot

Lilly Nekervis is modifying a robot dog to be a guide for people who are visually impaired.
Alex Worsnip

RUNC: Alex Worsnip

Alex Worsnip researches what it is to be rational — and why, sometimes, we aren’t.
Jian Lily Chen

RUNC: Jian Chen

Jian Chen wants more mental health services for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
Patricia Sawin with her two cats

The Future of Folk

Patricia Sawin has devoted her career to researching people’s everyday stories, from oral histories to memes.
Wubin Bai

Small Materials, Big Innovations

In collaboration with scientists and clinicians, Wubin Bai uses his expertise in materials science to develop next-generation medical devices.
Jonathan Schisler looks at the stars at Morehead Planetarium & Science Center

Team Science for Space

Jonathan Schisler’s research on aging is fueling a partnership with NASA to make Carolina a collaborative hub for future space studies.
Photo grid consisting of three head and shoulder portraits of undergraduate student researchers.

Back to Basics

From sustainable chemistry to quantum computing, Carolina undergraduates share their foundational research projects.
Nikhil Kaza

RUNC: Nikhil Kaza

Nikhil Kaza wants to reimagine cities for everyone.