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Photo of a marine iguana on the Galapagos Islands.

On the Front Lines

To better understand the severity of this year’s El Niño, UNC oceanographers traveled to one...
Graphic of a Venn diagram (over-lapping circles). The three main circles read "Subatomic Matter", "Symmetries", and "Cosmology & Astrophysics." The overlapping center, which included all of these key points reads "Science at the forefront"

Breaking the Silos

Theorists, experimentalists, and computational scientists will come together to answer grand challenge physics questions at...
Microscopic image of a mouse's T cells.

Team Science for Turner Syndrome

The NC TraCS Institute and a Translational Team Science Award help collaborators uncover what could...
Old photo of professors Tom Clegg and Hugon Karwowski in the lab with their students during the 1980s, conducting a tandem accelerator experiment.

Secret Sauce

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, the only lab of its kind in the Southeast, powers a...
Photo of a researcher hold a small lobster in their hand.

Sparking IDEAs in the Geosciences

Most young scientists don't get the opportunity to do field work until college. The UNC...
Portrait of Maggie Kovach.

Beat the Heat

As summer approaches, Maggie Kovach is finding ways for North Carolinians to avoid getting sick...
Photo of Tim Ronan burying a cable to a solar panel into the dirt, overlooking the Llaima volcano.

Tracking the Earth’s Heart Beats

A team of researchers uses cutting-edge technology to better predict when and how one of...
Photo of Elizabeth Shank in the lab, examining a petri dish.

The Bugs in Your Drugs

When it comes to fighting disease, bacteria do it better...
Photo of four undergraduate students examining oysters.

Can We Have Our Oysters and Eat Them, Too?

Undergraduate researchers study whether harvesting oysters helps or hurts coastal ecosystems...