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Research and Innovation

Topple a paradigm. Uncover the Unknown. Tar Heels ask questions, develop answers, create solutions and discover cures.

  • QUVI founders Kush Jain (right) and Harshul Makwana (left) working on their initial water bottle sanitation prototype for the UNC Makeathon.

    Making products that people want

    Carolina's Product Management Club gives student-innovators and entrepreneurs real-world experience with product management while developing exciting new features for local tech startups.

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    Quick exercises, quality results

    While research indicates the “Remain in the Game” exercises will prevent osteoarthritis, the on-the-field benefits have made believers out of coaches, athletes and parents.

  • one holding a diver's air tank.|FY21 federal breakdown of research funding: National Institutes of Health (73%)

    Carolina as a research powerhouse

    The University’s research enterprise has seen remarkable growth in recent decades. Here’s a look at the numbers and what they mean.

  • Two men work on the telescope dome.

    A new way to explore the night sky

    A group of graduate students led by associate professor Nick Law have spent the past year designing, engineering and developing a prototype for a new telescope system that will allow researchers to explore phenomena that no one has been capable of exploring before.

  • Riley Vickers standing near a pond.

    Membranes and modeling

    Royster Fellow and Ph.D. student Riley Vickers is bringing his distinct expertise to a multidisciplinary team working to improve the world’s access to clean water.

  • A student puts her phone in the Ultraloop device.

    Tar Heels meet a pandemic need in UV device

    Created and developed by Carolina students to fulfill a need during the pandemic, Ultraloop devices use high-frequency ultraviolet light to kill bacteria on small, everyday objects. The machines were recently rolled out on Carolina's campus.

  • deaths and injuries in North Carolina steadily rose each year since 2014

    Take the off-ramp from road rage

    With jam-packed holiday traffic in the forecast, a Carolina social psychologist describes where road rage begins and offers ways to avoid it.

  • offshore wind turbines are under construction in the North Sea.

    Are offshore wind farms coming to North Carolina? 

    After the Biden administration announced plans to develop coastal wind farms, The Well checked in with marine sciences professor Harvey Seim about what that could mean for North Carolina.