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The Time Tracker

The pace of life varies often. Sometimes it drags, others it races. But if time...
Nihar Vaidya

Nihar Vaidya

Nihar Vaidya is a junior double-majoring in computer science and statistics and analytics within the...

Keeping Rip Currents in Check

As a UNC graduate student, Greg Dusek’s dissertation was the development of a rip current...

Searching for Better Ways to Search

In 2000, researchers in the School of Information and Library Science’s Interaction Design Lab were...
Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou

A Sharper Image

UNC researchers Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou have spent the last two decades refining technology...
Kay Youngstrom

Kay Youngstrom

Kay Youngstrom is a sophomore and Chancellor’s Science Scholar double-majoring in chemistry and statistics and...

Nature’s Compass

How can animals travel thousands of miles on a migratory path yet most people need...

Research UNCovered, 2019-2020

Since Fall 2019, Research UNCovered has showcased the many faces of research at Carolina, from...
an illustration of Alice Marwick with a bunch of old computers behind her

Mad About Media

Alice Marwick learned how to code when she was 11 and began working in the...