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Food Through a New Lens

UNC cultural anthropologists look at the connections between food, environment and sustainability around the world. Read more...
Oliver Smithies, UNC’s First Nobel Laureate, Passes Away at 91

For 70 years, renowned Carolina geneticist Oliver Smithies spent seven days a week at his lab bench, pursuing his research with a profound enthusiasm that animated his life-long scientific career. On Tuesday, January 10, he passed away at UNC Hospitals after a short illness. He was 91. Read more...
A Living Scalpel to Fight Brain Cancer

A new technique using stem cells delivers anti-cancer drugs to glioblastoma, aggressive brain tumors that are often inaccessible. This potentially life-saving treatment was developed by UNC pharmacoengineer Shawn Hingtgen. Read more...
UNC Astronomers Use Remote Technology to Touch the Stars

UNC physics & astronomy graduate students and post-doctoral researchers use the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) to study distant, extinct solar systems. Read more...
'To Seek a True Cure’: UNC Researchers Pioneer HIV Research with ‘Kick and Kill’

UNC researchers have been working with GlaxoSmithKline on parallel studies at the UNC Cure Center for 18 months to advance this new method of combating the global epidemic of HIV. Read more...
A Caregiving Community at Carolina

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation strives to create better work-life balance for physician scientists — and UNC-Chapel Hill is going above and beyond to make that happen. Read more...