Adverse

Adverse: !TEST! !TEST! 2025-04-08 08:50:20

Discover

Carolina People

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

  • Illustration of four people in a circle of chairs with blank word bubbles above their heads suggesting conversation.

    Support for student mental health

    Faculty members share examples of how they are helping students cope with crisis.

  • A single snowflake with its dendritic shapes sits nestled on top other snowflakes.

    The science and poetry of snowflakes

    Whether you see them as “water with wings” or “hexagonal dendrites of ice,” snowflakes bring magic and wonder. Some even come from the Bahamas.

  • Ricky Burgess standing outside.

    #GDTBATH: Ricky Burgess

    Ph.D. student Ricky Burgess studies leadership, identity and morality in the context of teams at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Outside of the classroom, the Tar Heel also walks the walk as a prominent member of the student research community and an Initiative for Minority Excellence Scholar.

  • Two candles lit in front of a laptop displaying a viewing of a religious service.

    Old religions, new rituals

    The pandemic has changed ways that some Jews and Christians practice their faith, says a Carolina religious studies expert.

  • Tora Taylor-Glover

    Carolina People: Tora Taylor-Glover

    As a CAPS counselor embedded at the School of Law, she provides services to students, including those who might be dissuaded by the stigma around seeking support.

  • Keith Sawyer outside the UNC School of Education with creativity toys on a table.

    How to be more creative

    Keith Sawyer from the UNC School of Education shares his advice for mastering the art of creativity — a skill anybody can learn.

  • Dj and Bryn with their twin boys.

    Dissertations and diapers

    Meet Bryn Barker and DJ Passey — married Ph.D. students in the Department of Mathematics who are parents to twin boys.

  • Sandra Thiongo

    From ATL to the well

    Sandra Thiongo is Carolina's first Carolina's first Peachtree Scholar. The psychology major and member of the Psych Club is determined to make the most of her college experience.