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 dog 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.
Salma Hakam

RUNC: Salma Hakam

Salma Hakam advocates for health equity in underserved populations.
Roberto Camassa (left) and Rich McLaughlin (right) give a tour of the UNC Fluids Lab

Young Punks, Big Waves

Roberto Camassa and Rich McLaughlin pushed for creation of a fluids lab at Carolina in the late 1990s — and now it’s one of the most unique research spaces of its kind in the U.S.
Julianne Davis holds a drone in Alaska

The Lifecycle of a River

Julianne Davis writes about her last two field seasons in Alaska, waiting for river ice to break to study sediment shifts during springtime.
A man carries a drone out of a marsh.

Mapping Marsh Futures

Researchers from the Carolina Drone Lab use aerial imagery to assess marsh health in the Outer Banks.