Howard Craft and Renée Alexander Craft share a commitment to storytelling to preserve history, support different perspectives, and inspire creativity.

Newlyweds and postdoctoral researchers Manuel and Megan Maeso look forward to a future filled with companionship, empathy, and science.

Anna Gatdula studies how the atomic bomb influences music, art, and culture.

Dongshen Peng looks for keys to hidden epigenetic doors.

Chemist Wei You’s second startup company is using polymers to create drug delivery systems for eye diseases.

Sam Lai has founded multiple startups by studying underexplored processes in the body — like mucus production.

Ronit Freeman uses nature’s building blocks to create innovative technologies, from synthetic cells to treatments that could transform health care.

Chad Pecot is revolutionizing RNA therapies for cancer through his company EnFuego Therapeutics and the new UNC RNA Discovery Center.

Kumi Silva studies how love and hate are intertwined.

Samuel Ellington uses math to evaluate events and behaviors.

Alita Miller engineers probiotics to treat gut diseases.

Sourav Kumar Petra studies the evolution of protein creation and function.