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Research and Innovation

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

Keeping Carolina’s move-in trash out of the landfill
A team of “Recycling Ambassadors” has diverted more than 322 tons of cardboard, polystyrene and plastic film from landfills since 2001.
How Carolina is transforming medicine with artificial intelligence
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health professor Michael Kosorok is working to bring artificial intelligence to the public health field.
Making transformative discoveries
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is improving public health across North Carolina and around the world.
Carolina brings cutting-edge dental surgery to the U.S.
UNC School of Dentistry professor Jessica Lee is embracing an innovative procedure in pediatric dentistry, saving kids from years of follow-up surgeries and restoring their smiles — and their confidence.
Moving beyond excellence
Since 1950, Carolina's School of Dentistry has been transforming dentistry for better health. As North Carolina's first school of its kind, the School of Dentistry strives to be the global model for oral health education, in care and discovery. It passionately serves North Carolina's people, our communities and the dental field.
Archiving community stories
Carolina's Archivist in a Backpack project, a project of the University Libraries, is empowering everyday people to tell their own stories and capture the history of communities around the world.
Leading the business of health
The UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School recently launched the Center for the Business of Health to address key challenges in the health care sector.
Likes vs. likeability
Professor Mitch Prinstein looks at different kinds of popularity in his book, Popular, Carolina's 2018 summer reading book.