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    Faculty Council members hear updates on a new partnership, mental health

    The Council also heard from a University of California researcher who shared an alternate method for academic publishing implemented by his state’s university system to ensure open access to its research.

  • Two men work on the telescope dome.

    A new way to explore the night sky

    A group of graduate students led by associate professor Nick Law have spent the past year designing, engineering and developing a prototype for a new telescope system that will allow researchers to explore phenomena that no one has been capable of exploring before.

  • Riley Vickers standing near a pond.

    Membranes and modeling

    Royster Fellow and Ph.D. student Riley Vickers is bringing his distinct expertise to a multidisciplinary team working to improve the world’s access to clean water.

  • Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody told the Board of Trustees during her presentation on student mental health.|

    Mental health the focus of BOT presentation

    Faculty, administrators describe increased resources and plan for daylong summit on Nov. 15.

  • A student puts her phone in the Ultraloop device.

    Tar Heels meet a pandemic need in UV device

    Created and developed by Carolina students to fulfill a need during the pandemic, Ultraloop devices use high-frequency ultraviolet light to kill bacteria on small, everyday objects. The machines were recently rolled out on Carolina's campus.

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    Take the off-ramp from road rage

    With jam-packed holiday traffic in the forecast, a Carolina social psychologist describes where road rage begins and offers ways to avoid it.

  • Spencer wearing his purple heart.

    Restoring a veteran’s honor

    Students at the UNC School of Law’s Military and Veterans Law Clinic help veterans fight for upgrades or corrections in military discharges to make life-saving resources available to the former service members. For one North Carolina veteran, they restored all the honors he was owed — including his Purple Heart.

  • Teaching associate professor Michael Gutierrez teaches while masked.

    Mastering masked communication

    Teaching while masked is another skill Carolina’s faculty have needed to develop during the pandemic.