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Serving our state

Whether it’s working directly with communities to overcome challenges or conducting impactful research in labs to find solutions to pressing issues, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is dedicated to serving the people of North Carolina. As a university built for the people, public service is at the core of Carolina's mission.

Tar Heels giving back to North Carolina

  • Filling Up The Truck

    Led by Carolina athletics teams and the Carolina Center for Public Service, the campus community filled the football team’s 18-wheel equipment truck with donations to deliver to communities impacted by Hurricane Florence.

  • Dental School students provide more than 1,600 hours of service in single day

    More than 400 UNC School of Dentistry students, staff and faculty provided 1,624 hours of service to the local community on its fourth annual day of service.

  • From one field to another

    Carolina alumnus Jason Brown had become one of the top centers in the NFL, earning him a lucrative $37.5 million contract. Three years later, he hung up his cleats to become a farmer to fight hunger in North Carolina.

  • Serving in rural and underserved areas in North Carolina

    The Kenan Primary Care Medical Scholars Program gives medical students an opportunity to complete a six-week summer internship at a rural health care clinic. Each student works with a primary care physician to see the clinic’s day-to-day operations and the variety of care these doctors provide.

Improving lives with research

  • Members of the Good Bowls team display their product at a store.

    Bringing healthy food to all consumers

    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health professor Alice Ammerman is working to provide locally-sourced, nutritious meals to communities in need.

  • Stories that save lives

    Saving lives through stories

    The Southern Oral History Program launched a major research initiative to collect oral histories in rural North Carolina communities that will inform health care research, practice and policy.

  • An aerial photo of a living shoreline and bulkhead.

    Protecting homes and ecosystems with living shorelines

    Doctoral student Carter Smith is researching living shorelines as an economic way for coastal homeowners to protect their property while also doing something good for the environment.