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Discover

Research and Innovation

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

  • Professor and student hold up their 3D printed cube

    Could we make a Carolina blue spacecraft?

    Assistant professor Andrew Mann is building small satellites in campus makerspaces to discover young planets that could one day sustain life.

  • Astronauts train in Morehead Planetarium.

    ‘Walking in the footsteps of men who walked on the moon’

    Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center played a pivotal role in American space exploration and discovery, including helping put a man on the moon.

  • A man steps onto a platform.

    Combating concussions

    There are a thousand ways service members can receive mild traumatic brain injuries, but basic concussion testing protocols haven’t always accounted for the intense activities required of this population. Carolina researchers have worked to change that.

  • A drone flys over campus.

    Life-saving drones

    After a heart attack, every second counts. Carolina researchers and NC State experts have taken to the air to find a new way to get medical care to the victims faster.

  • Nancy Burton

    Nancy Burton’s story includes support taken and given

    Nancy Burton began as a third-shift housekeeper at the University and worked her way up to receptionist and administrative support specialist for Housekeeping Services. Now she's being rewarded for her distinguished service.

  • Students handle model bones

    Written in bone

    This three-week Maymester course teaches students about skeletal analysis and its role in contemporary forensic cases.

  • A microphone on the stage.

    Comedy and humor

    Ethics of Stand-up Comedy is a Maymester course that examines comedy’s role in society as a form of cultural expression full of underlying ethical discussions.

  • The Old Well.

    Celebrating 225 years of Carolina

    This year we celebrated our past and embraced our future in service of a better state, a better nation and a better world.