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

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    How to manage your time effectively

    To help our Tar Heels begin the year on the right foot, operations expert and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor Brad Staats shared his tips for effective time management, starting with re-thinking that to-do list.

  • Two students sit on Polk Place.

    How to make friends during a pandemic

    Making new friends can be a challenge even under normal circumstances. Add in a pandemic that forces us to remain physically distant, and it can feel overwhelming. Mitch Prinstein explains how it's still possible to build those relationships even when everything feels so different.

  • #GDTBATH: Derrick Carr

    GDTBATH: Derrick Carr

    A doctoral student in physics, Derrick Carr is following his childhood passion for skywatching by conducting research that is making important contributions toward identifying characteristics of galaxies very different from our own.

  • Luis Sanchez

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Luis Sanchez

    After a life-changing accident left Luis Sanchez unable to regain his full ability to walk for nearly a year in high school, his eyes were opened to the world of biomedical engineering. This fall, he will begin his path to a career in the field as a Tar Heel.

  • Max Masiello.

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Max Masiello

    A musician and producer with an album release already on his resume, Max Masiello is turning to Carolina to prepare for a future business career in the music industry.

  • Raven Smith

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Raven Smith

    After working as an emergency room nurse at Duke Regional Hospital and UNC Hospitals for the past three years, Raven Smith returned to the classroom this fall to work toward a doctorate degree in nursing from the UNC School of Nursing.

  • Jayla Cobbs

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Jayla Cobbs

    A Junior EMT since she was 14, incoming first-year student Jayla Cobbs is joining the Carolina community to go deeper into the world of medicine.

  • Mary Grace holding a sign that says

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Mary Grace

    Throughout her life, 64-year-old Mary Grace has been an activist, a mother, a teacher, a student and a world traveler. And, now, she’s a Carolina student.