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A salamander rests in the hand of a student.

Hunting for Salamanders in the Highlands

With more than 30 species of salamanders living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park...
a woman wearing a tan suit stands in a lab

Jillian Dempsey

Jillian Dempsey is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry within the UNC College...
a young girl (Haley Moser) collects a water sample from an outdoor hose faucet attached to a brick wall

Haley Moser

Senior Haley Moser is an undergraduate researcher within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences...

Reef. Sleep. Repeat.

In December, graduate students from the UNC Department of Marine Sciences spent 10 days transplanting...

The Evolution of a Research Center

More than 225 students and scientists have received educational training and advanced their research at...
a handful of complex physics equations like E = mc2 on a background of the universe (lots of stars)

Speaking Math

Imagine a sentence so long that it would take an entire lifetime to read it...

Career Aquatic

At the end of his 40-year career at the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, Dive...
a blacklight makes everything purple while a gloved hand places a test tube full of yellow fluid into a a test tube tray

Generating Power Like Plants

When plants absorb sunlight, they convert carbon dioxide into energy-rich organic compounds. What if humans could do...

Go with the Flow

Streambeds act as natural water filters by trapping particles and pollutants. To better understand the...