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News for the Carolina community

  • headshots of new faculty

    Roll out the welcome mat

    Their interests range from neurodegenerative diseases to eating disorders to race, class and gender to playing and teaching jazz saxophone. Meet six of Carolina’s newest faculty members.

  • woman wearing a mask with a hand pressed on a window

    Rethinking aging

    A Carolina professor weaves together personal experience, observations of others and history in examining how the pandemic degraded our ideas about the elderly and gave us a taste of old age.

  • graphic of people walking with masks, person using tracker on phone in foreground

    The right balance: digital contact tracing and privacy

    Experts discuss privacy issues as governments around the globe explore how technology and data analytics can enable effective contact tracing to slow the pandemic.

  • people sitting and standing in front of South Building wearing masks

    Masks, masks and more masks

    With new research identifying the nose as the coronavirus’s main entry point, Carolina experts offer tips on best masks, best fit and best practices.

  • Carol Womack sitting on bench near Old Well.

    Shining example

    Massey Award winner Carol Womack’s path took her from a Jamaican farm through some hard times and to a new life in North Carolina.

  • multiple drinking coffee and petting their dogs

    Front porch revival

    With origins in the South, front porches are fostering a sense of ‘we are all in this together.’

  • four UNC employees posing outside with masks

    Carolina’s heroes

    The University salutes its essential workers and asks Tar Heels everywhere to wear Carolina blue to honor them on April 28.

  • Screen capture from an ELab zoom session showing professor Ted Zoller and students.

    Building a new raft

    Forced to adapt entrepreneurship courses in which students learn from business luminaries, a Kenan-Flagler professor's team ups its innovation game.