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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...
Photo of Hans Paerl and Ph.D. student Joey Crosswell posing in the lab.

What’s Hiding in Our Coastal Waters?

Marine science researchers at UNC have found that estuaries generate natural defenses against the effects...
Photo of Anna Atencio smoothing out a sediment core sample on to two long trays in the Rodriguez lab.

A Lifelong Scientist Finds Her Calling at UNC

Anna Atencio wasn’t planning to come to Carolina—until she learned about the Chancellor’s Science Scholars...