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Carolina People

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

  • Zeynep Tufekci talking on stage during a TED talk.

    ‘Getting the big things right’

    With social science insights and a global perspective, Carolina’s Zeynep Tufekci helps clarify the COVID-19 big picture.

  • UNC-Chapel Hill student Victor Ilevbare.

    From Ebola to COVID-19: One student’s drive to fight infectious diseases

    Carolina junior Victor Ilevbare has been through an epidemic and a pandemic, both of which informed his interest in medicine.

  • A seaturtle swims in the ocean.

    Nature’s compass

    Carolina's Brian Taylor explores the ability of many animals to use the earth’s magnetic field for navigation in hopes of improving humanmade systems.

  • A collage of photos of people wearing masks and holding their art.

    A creative outlet

    Over the past year, as they navigated isolation and stress, these Tar Heels turned to something they can control and lose themselves in: art.

  • People holding wood

    Recycle, recut, rejoice

    The Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling helped a daughter give her father an especially meaningful present for his 90th birthday.

  • #GDTBATH: Lamar Richards

    #GDTBATH: Lamar Richards

    Carolina sophomore and student body president-elect Lamar Richards is making his mark on campus by paving the way for more students to succeed.

  • Dr. Steven Zeisel peers into a microscope.

    A legacy of precision nutrition

    Dr. Steven Zeisel will be stepping down as the UNC Nutrition Research Institute’s director after 13 years, but he leaves behind a legacy that has helped shape a more comprehensive picture of nutrition.

  • A collage of people and their art

    Piano, paints and Pilates

    Meet University employees who have been spending their time playing the piano, painting watercolors and practicing Pilates and photography.