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an elderly woman wearing a mask looks out the window

Helping the Hardest Hit

While the novel coronavirus has affected us all, it has drastically changed the lives of...

Addressing Pandemic Problems

While COVID-19 has shaken the world, it has also pushed society to be more innovative and creative — two attributes that have been...
Timothy Sheahan

Carolina’s Coronavirus Lab

UNC virologists Timothy Sheahan and Ralph Baric have been working around the clock to develop...

Doing COVID-19 Dirty Work

Employing wastewater epidemiology — proven useful in outbreaks of polio and opioid use — UNC...
Clare Harrop

Clare Harrop

Clare Harrop is a research assistant professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences within...
Fu Pei-mei cooks on her cooking show in the 1980s

The Joy of Chinese Cooking

Michelle T. King’s research on culinary nationalism and Chinese cuisine lands at the intersection of...
On the left, red frosting spells out the word "muted" on speckled table; on the right, a loaf of bread is dusted with flour, making a design of a raised fist inside the female symbol

Food Fights

Food is so much more than what we eat, nourishing us beyond our bodies. This...
Priscilla Layne

Priscilla Layne

Priscilla Layne is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and...
Jieni Zhou

Jieni Zhou

Jieni Zhou is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience within the...