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Every day, Tar Heels find ways to leave their Heelprint on campus and make our community stronger.

  • Ashley Thrower poses for a photo with her daughter.

    ‘Failure wasn’t an option’

    Ashley Thrower, 22-year-old single mother, is now half way to her goals as she prepares to receive her bachelor’s in biology at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Winter Commencement.

  • Yachao Fan

    ‘Beyond persistent’

    Nothing has come easy for Yachao Fan who will meet his biggest challenge yet: graduating from Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

  • Aziz Sancar is presented with two framed soccer uniforms.

    The man behind the Nobel

    Carolina professor's groundbreaking research on DNA repair is impacting the health and survival of millions around the world.

  • Q&A with Commencement speaker Kelly Hogan

    Hogan teaches 400-seat classes on campus using interactive teaching techniques and technologies and has worked with many of Carolina’s faculty to help them reinvent their teaching.

  • Aziz Sancar at podium

    ‘And then there were two’

    Carolina’s Dr. Aziz Sancar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work mapping the cellular mechanisms that underlie DNA repair.

  • Joe DeSimone

    From lab bench to marketplace

    Joseph DeSimone has found success commercially as the holder of more than 150 patents and in research as a member of all three branches of the U.S. National Academies.

  • Researchers work on weather balloon.

    Into the stratosphere

    A UNC geophysicist is sending his research as high as he can — 125,000 feet and counting.

  • Display of Oliver Smithies at the Nobel Museum

    A Nobel connection in Stockholm

    Oliver Smithies, Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Medicine, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2007 for his work to help discover the principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.