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

  • Patricia Dawson

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Patricia Dawson

    Patricia Dawson is an incoming doctoral student who will study Cherokee history, following in the footsteps of her great-great-great aunt, who is believed to be the first Cherokee woman to earn a doctorate.

  • Wyn Fox during a deployment.

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Wyn Fox

    Wyn Fox, a Bronze Star recipient and veteran of four deployments, is among the more than 4,300 new students arriving at Carolina this fall.

  • Chris Suggs

    Meet a new Tar Heel: Chris Suggs

    Growing up surrounded by the effects of poverty and violence in Kinston, North Carolina, the incoming first-year student founded a program to empower young people in his community.

  • Charlotte Burnett and Karl Holt.

    Two students named Tillman Scholars

    Charlotte Burnett and Karl Holt earned the recognition for their service, leadership and potential as civilian professionals.

  • A graphic of the Old Well with

    Well Said: Concussions

    From youth sports to the NFL, talk about concussions and the damaging effects of the brain injury has dominated the sports world for years.

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    Well Said: Popularity

    In this week's episode, we talk about popularity with Mitch Prinstein, the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and author of the book "Popular."

  • ostume designer Jan Chambers studied 9th- and 10th-century Islamic artifacts. She watched vultures and eagles — birds mentioned in the Arabic account — glide and soar in creating her sketches. Photo by Steve Exum.

    Flight of fancy

    More than 1,000 years before the Wright brothers made their historic flight, an Islamic inventor designed a winged device, dared to test it himself.

  • Zena Cardman

    Well Said: Astronaut candidate Zena Cardman

    Carolina graduate Zena Cardman will soon be going where few Tar Heels have gone before — space. The Carolina alumna has been selected by NASA to be part of its newest astronaut class.