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Carolina People

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

  • Dr. Rick Leuttich, director of the UNC Center for Natural Hazards and Disasters, sits at his computer to use modeling to predict storm surge from hurricanes and the areas affected

    Protecting New Orleans 10 years after Katrina

    Carolina faculty member Rick Luettich lends his expertise on storm surge to the city of New Orleans.

  • Zhen Gu

    Curiosity, perseverance inspire Gu

    Zhen Gu’s advances in diabetes and cancer treatment have been inspired not only by personal factors but also by curiosity, perseverance and a sense of gratitude.

  • Tia Holmes

    Holmes brings message of inclusion

    Tia Holmes has dealt with her fair share of challenges with mild cerebral palsy. Now the incoming first-years wants to be an advocate for inclusion for everyone.

  • Carolina's Spencer Smith stands by his microscope

    Building a better microscope

    Carolina assistant professor Stephen Smith uses a microscope he designed himself in order to know for certain what neurons — and which kind of neurons — fire as a result of specific stimuli.

  • Eric Strand

    A good heart

    High school dropout, Green Beret medic who served three tours in Iraq, Special Forces medic instructor at Fort Bragg, lymphoma fighter who is free of cancer today, and future physician and researcher -- the remarkable path to medicine of rising third-year medical student Eric Strand.

  • A portrait of Deb Aikat in an empty lecture hall

    From competition to contract

    UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Deb Aikat discusses his new book, for which he won a contract to write in a book proposal competition.

  • Dr. Alex White

    Alex White sinks his teeth into dental public health

    White’s joint appointment as an associate professor is believed to be the first endowed professorship in the nation linking dentistry and public health.

  • Sasha Coefield holds a laptop showing her YouTube channel

    Meet a Tar Heel: Balancing braids and books

    Self-taught braid expert and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Sasha Coefield is an online sensation, running the YouTube channel Asksash88.