Well Said: 2018

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers, students and alumni gave us a lot to talk about this year. Each week, we sat down with Carolina’s newsmakers to find out what’s going on around campus and how the University’s experts are impacting the world.

Here are some of our favorite Well Said podcasts of the year:

• On the first day of class this August, we waited in line with hundreds of students to hear more about the legend of the first sip. It turns out, the origin of the myth is a bit of a mystery.
• Mitch Prinstein, the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, explained the different forms of popularity and why it doesn’t always pay to be the most popular.
• On the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health professor Ralph Baric taught us how medical developments we’ve seen in the past 100 years have prepared society to respond to the next major outbreak.
• In remembrance of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Joe Glatthaar discussed the context surrounding the events leading up to – and following – the attack.
• Laura Klinger, an associate professor of psychiatry and the executive director of the UNC TEACCH Autism program, shared how Carolina’s world-leading autism research is developing intervention programs for people from 9 months old to 70 years old.

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