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Carolina People

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

  • Bob Goldstein working on a screenprinting press in a shed.

    Science art that rocks

    Biologist Bob Goldstein had a knack for promoting science talks like rock shows. Then the pandemic hit.

  • Joey Richards stands outside with a guitar

    #GDTBATH: Joey Richards

    Doctoral student Joey Richards is a stand-up comedian who researches performance studies and teaches in the communication department in the College of Arts & Sciences. Richards is interested in the ways we can use comedy to create community and share queer identities.

  • Mary Laci Motley working at a concession stand.

    Profit for purpose: How a student-run business aims to help area nonprofits

    Senior Mary Laci Motley created Eats2Seats as a way to help nonprofits raise money via concession stands. The startup is representing Carolina at the annual ACC Inventure Prize competition.

  • Coach Roy Williams.

    Roy Williams’ undying passion for Carolina

    The beloved Tar Heels coach made his name on the basketball court, but Williams — and his wife, Wanda — will also be remembered for kindness and generosity in giving others a shot at a Carolina education.

  • occupational health nurse Jeanne Brueggemann performs a routine mask fit test on Chelsi Holle. This was a common test at the clinic before mask-wearing became the new normal. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)|

    We’re still here: Keeping Carolina healthy

    When most Carolina faculty and staff went remote last spring, many employees at the University Employee Occupational Health Clinic and Campus Health strapped on masks and came to campus to provide health care to Carolina employees and students. A year later, they’re still at it.

  • Mother and son washing dishes at a kitchen sink.

    Post-pandemic life: shifts in family roles, spending habits

    In the second of a three-part series, two Carolina experts discuss some lasting effects of the pandemic on family relationships, how we spend money and how businesses operate.

  • Amrutha Nandum smiles.

    #GDTBATH: Amrutha Nandam

    Amrutha Nandam launched Special Needs Special People, an organization shining a light on accessibility differences.

  • Making natural connections — on film and in the classroom

    Carolina professor and filmmaker Julia Haslett, whose latest documentary tells the story of conservationists restoring rhododendrons to their native China, brings the natural world to the screen and to her classroom.