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A yellow-and-white striped Monarch butterfly caterpillar munches on the leaves of a milkweed plant

In the Weeds

To help restore the monarch butterfly population, the North Carolina Botanical Garden has joined a...
Danny Bowman holds the end of his homemade solar balloon, preparing to launch it. Click the image to start the video.

Shoot for the Stratosphere

A UNC geophysicist is sending his research as high as he can—125,000 feet and counting...
Niels Lindquist and local fisherman David “Clammerhead” Cessna check out the North Carolina coast new a pier, while the sun rises behind them. Click image to start video.

The Scientist and the Fisherman

What do you get when you combine new science with decades of knowledge from local...
Black and white studio headshot photo of Deborah Dexter as a young faculty member.

Woman On Board

Deborah Dexter, the first person to earn a PhD at the UNC Institute of Marine...

Win-Win

The UNC community applauds doctoral candidate Ted Mansfield, who won a Best Paper Award from...

The Need for Seeds

The North Carolina Botanical Garden collects seeds to ecologically restore native plant species after natural...
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...