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Carolina People

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

  • headshots of new faculty

    Roll out the welcome mat

    Their interests range from neurodegenerative diseases to eating disorders to race, class and gender to playing and teaching jazz saxophone. Meet six of Carolina’s newest faculty members.

  • Rodney Hood speaks at a meeting.

    Alumnus Rodney Hood finds his calling helping others

    Carolina alumnus Rodney Hood has made a career out of serving underserved communities. As chair of the National Credit Union Administration, he is now taking that mission to the federal level.

  • The Varsity Alley arch on Franklin Street.

    Portraits of Chapel Hill

    Meet some of the Tar Heel alumni who run beloved local businesses in Chapel Hill.

  • Massey Award winner Steve Davis holds a Native American artifact.

    Excavating the past to serve the future

    Massey Award winner Steve Davis has dedicated his life to preserving the history of North Carolina’s Native American peoples for future generations.

  • #GDTBATH Landon Bost

    #GDTBATH: Landon Bost

    Rising senior Landon Bost was one of 16 students nationwide selected to attend the Sports Journalism Institute, a fellowship program for minorities and women that seeks to diversify sports journalism.

  • Julie Cannefax

    Making it personal

    Massey Award winner Julie Cannefax takes care of business and nurtures students for the curriculum in toxicology and environmental medicine.

  • #GDTBATH Abhishek Shankar

    #GDTBATH: Abhishek Shankar

    Graduating senior Abhishek Shankar worked to launch the UNC-Chapel Hill Asian American Center to share a deeper understanding of the unique experience of being Asian American in the American South with the campus community.

  • Michael Emch

    The disease ecologist

    Michael Emch has spent decades tracking the spread of infectious diseases in human populations around the world. Now he confronts what it means to teach and conduct research during a pandemic.