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  • Aerial photo of Broughton District.

    Revitalizing North Carolina towns

    The School of Government’s Development Finance Initiative helps towns navigate public-private partnerships to increase revenue, preserve historic areas, provide housing and create jobs.

  • Head shot of Dawn Wedig

    The terrible necessity of hurricanes

    As a meteorologist and emergency management planner, Dawn Wedig educates others about hurricanes — from why we need them to why we need to prepare for them.

  • A person standing next to a flower

    Growing hope, farmer to farmer

    Carolina’s Peers for Progress is helping North Carolina farmers support each other by reducing isolation and improving mental health.

  • A bee hotel exhibit at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.

    North Carolina Botanical Garden’s bee hotels

    Located just off main campus, the North Carolina Botanical Garden has been caring for pollinators with bee hotels. The structures, designed by artist David Hinkle, are meant to help native bees nest and reproduce.

  • Stacy Zhang standing near the ocean.

    On the edge of discovery

    Carolina alumna Stacy Zhang first got her feet wet in marine ecology as an undergrad. Now a postdoctoral researcher with the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, she is on the frontlines of helping navigate challenges facing North Carolina's coast.

  • Velvet Nelson standing near the entrance of Launch Chapel Hill.

    Launching businesses and jobs

    Velvet Nelson, the director of Launch Chapel Hill, discusses how the startup accelerator and coworking space formed out of a partnership between Carolina, the Town of Chapel Hill and Orange County is helping the local economy.

  • Darren Hearn.

    Doctoral candidate Darren Hearn serves military personnel at Fort Bragg and beyond

    Graduating Tar Heel Darren Hearn has focused his research on musculoskeletal injury and performance and how those areas can be applied to people completing military basic training in order to identify those at greatest risk for sustaining injury.

  • Jon Lucas standing near the coast.

    From Marine to marine scientist

    Graduating master's student Jonathan Lucas traded his military fatigues and boots for wetsuits and waders to return to school and earn a master's degree in marine sciences.