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Research and Innovation

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

  • woman wearing a mask with a hand pressed on a window

    Rethinking aging

    A Carolina professor weaves together personal experience, observations of others and history in examining how the pandemic degraded our ideas about the elderly and gave us a taste of old age.

  • graphic of people walking with masks, person using tracker on phone in foreground

    The right balance: digital contact tracing and privacy

    Experts discuss privacy issues as governments around the globe explore how technology and data analytics can enable effective contact tracing to slow the pandemic.

  • Researcher works with pipettes at the lab bench

    Expecting the unexpected

    Myron Cohen has spent the past 40 years helping to recruit the most promising infectious disease experts from across the nation to build a program at Carolina that’s become a leader in HIV. That expertise is now being used to tackle COVID-19.

  • A man wearing a cochlear implant.

    Moments of clarity

    In the past, cochlear implants were employed in people with severe hearing loss, improving their ability to hear the conversations around them. But now, studies show that these devices offer benefits to patients with mild or moderate hearing loss.

  • Four people on a Zoom call.

    Carolina interns experience virtual startup summer

    A creative collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill innovation and entrepreneurship programs connected students with startup companies looking to solve complex problems.

  • A man plays piano.

    Improvisation leads to successful Summer Jazz Workshop

    As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, faculty members in Carolina's music department had to do a new kind of musical improvisation: move the annual, in-person Summer Jazz Workshop for students and amateur musicians entirely online.

  • People meet around a table.

    During a pandemic, strong public policy can save lives

    Benjamin Mason Meier is analyzing policies across the globe that are being implemented to halt the spread of COVID-19. He wants to understand what powers governments have to prevent the disease and what policies are working in the disease response.

  • Students work on a remote-controlled car.

    The fast and the autonomous

    Before self-driving cars can make their big debut, computer scientists at Carolina are researching how to reduce the vehicles' capacity for error by using remote-controlled cars as their models.