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Research and Innovation

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

  • Two women talk to each other.

    Fostering entrepreneurship

    Carolina entrepreneurs and innovators are helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Through their ingenuity, they provide economic and social value in North Carolina and beyond

  • Student develops film.

    Students embrace the roots of photography

    In the age of digital photography, a group of Carolina students are sticking to the art's roots and working in a darkroom.

  • Students pose for a photo in front of the Old Well.

    Student-run thrift shop creates a less-is-more solution

    UNC-Chapel Hill's first student-run thrift shop is creating a better way to reduce the waste that occurs on campus each year while encouraging socially responsible consumerism.

  • Benjamin Frey

    Saving an endangered language

    Sociolinguistic scholar and American studies assistant professor Ben Frey is helping revitalize the Cherokee language.

  • Robin Frohardt laughs.

    Plastic bag art

    Artist Robin Frohardt is using art to bring greater awareness to the impact plastic has on the Earth.

  • Joe DeSimone and Valerie Ashby

    Two centuries of chemistry

    Carolina's chemistry department is celebrating 200 years of chemical innovation and education.

  • Joe DeSimone and Valerie Ashby

    Two centuries forever young

    As the chemistry department turns 200 years old, the College of Arts and Sciences looks back on how the department became the powerhouse it is today.

  • Young boy holds a puzzle piece.

    Accelerating autism research

    Carolina is one of the world’s premier autism research universities, taking on the disorder from every angle — genetics, development, biomedical and cognitive.