Marc Emerson’s experiences growing up in Navajo Nation guide his research on health equity in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.

Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens has spent her career researching hard-hitting issues in children’s health care and has changed the way doctors think about puberty.

Wayana Dolan researches water mazes in Arctic deltas.

Daniel Gonzalez works to improve medication dosing in children.

Frank Leibfarth tests molecules to turn plastic waste into useful materials, diversifying options for recycling.

The mathematical puzzles that arise when modeling neurodegenerative diseases fascinate Tanya Garcia, who hopes to solve them to speed treatment development.

Aobo Li's groundbreaking work using machine learning to detect neutrinos could shed light on the nature of our universe.

Jack Sundberg has created a software to help chemists uncover the best materials for their experiments — a potential game-changer for minimizing time and costs.

Celine Fei uses big data to help small businesses.

While studying small mammals in the Blue Ridge Mountains, juniors Marie Young and Cole Prezant discover a love for field work.

Gabriel Bump writes novels to better understand himself and the places and people he holds dear.

Ken Donny-Clark spent his last semester at UNC-Chapel Hill in the woods searching for a dwindling population of trees that local wildlife depends on: Carolina hemlocks.