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UNC-Chapel Hill students are fully engaged with their professors in scientific exploration. You will find new stories about their discoveries here, so stop by frequently.
You will enjoy these examples of how Carolina, a school with
strong science preparation for medical school, trains young
scientists in varied disciplines that are important in the
21st century. You will see how many breakthroughs come from
collaboration between researchers in different disciplines.
In this environment, our students learn to solve problems
through flexible, creative thinking. And, you will learn how
they conduct research and apply their findings not only at
UNC-Chapel Hill but also in settings around the world.
Student Profiles
 She's a Natural
Annemarie Nagle has many interests: evolution, forestry, ecology and horticultural pathology.
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 The Making of a Small-Town Doctor
Will Hannah has always been interested in science, but it wasn’t until recently that he decided to channel that interest into the field of medicine.
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 La biologie est ma passion
While biology is her love, Alexandra is enamored of languages, literature, history, and psychology as well.
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Finding Erik Andersen
Erik Andersen, you could say, was born to program...
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Froggy Went A Courtin’
Ever wonder how frogs find their true love? Biology researchers at UNC are trying to figure that out as well..
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Mucus Mechanics
Junior Sorell Massenburg spends much of his time in a lab studying mucus – the thick, sticky substance that lines your lungs and makes your nose run when you catch a cold.
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Star Hunter – A Carolina junior finds a 13 billion-year-old explosion
A star dies and collapses into a black hole. Nearly 13 billion years later,
Joshua Haislip gets a text message in his dorm room telling him a telescope in
Chile detected the massive explosion.
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What’s in the Soil? A Catalyst for
Success
Every season, farmers protect a variety of crops, including potatoes,
raspberries and celery, from insects and weeds by applying a pesticide
known as Telone II or Shell D-D. Enzymes deep in the soil break down
the residues from this pesticide in less than two seconds. But what if
the enzyme didn’t exist?
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The Power of a Protein
Ena, short for Enabled, is a protein that may play a role in the development of leukemia. Using fruit fly eggs, James Mahaffey, a senior biology student at Carolina and undergraduate researcher, studies the role Ena plays in embryo development.
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Song Searching
We know that female songbirds want bodily symmetry and an elaborate musical repertoire
in their mates, but are the two traits related? Sachi Vora, along with three
other undergraduates and a professor, trekked through the Molas Pass deep in
the San Juan Mountains of Colorado last summer to find out.
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DNA on a Spool
Alex Berkow, a senior biology major, works in a lab studying some of the proteins
that help create and regulate histones. Without these proteins, there would
be no histones, no DNA replication and no cell reproduction.
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Pushing the Limits
Antarctica is famously the coldest, highest, driest, windiest, eptiest and most
inaccessible place on Earth. Despite its forbidding reputations, there is no
place on this planet Kate Harris finds more alluring.
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A Shot at Space
Want to go to Mars but short on cash for a ride in the space shuttle?
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Sky's the Limit
SOAR, a new telescope like no other, exists because of work by Carolina scientists
and students who collaborated with scientists worldwide.
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More Than a Game
A device invented by two applied sciences majors began in a computer science
class, and will help visually impaired children.
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Music of the Spheres
Dave Moschler not only listens, but he adds his own notes to
the music of the spheres.
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Exploring Nanoworld
What is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair, behaves like
a metal or semiconductor, conducts electricity better than
copper, transmits heat better than diamond, ranks among the
strongest materials known, and is only a few microns long?
Give up? Ask Rohit Prakash.
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Fly Girl
Dr Stephen Crews's neurogenetics lab has become a second home
for Kristin Benjamin...and a bunch of fruit flies.
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Of Worms and Men
Jasper Harris studies worms. Not just any worms, mind you.
Harris uses microscopic worms to learn more about cancer.
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Following Historic Footsteps
Blind students can follow the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s
trail because of Jeremy Parker ’s work.
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Mars in Utah
Do you want to study abroad? Right now, Kate Harris is on
Mars or at least the closest place to it on this planet.
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On a Quest for Knowledge
Liz Veazey's interests are taking her places.
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In Touch with the Inner Cell
Microscopes bring us closer to cells, but what if we could
actually touch them? Junior Ben Wilde can.
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Harvesting Light
Paul Jang is part of a research team whose discoveries may
lead to a light-harvesting antenna that will make solar energy
systems far more efficient.
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Faculty Profiles
Nobel Prize Recipient Dr. Oliver Smithies
Students interested in science will be inspired by the news that Dr. Oliver Smithies, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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 Hark the Sound
When you meet Gary Bishop, you can tell he is full of passion. He exudes enerygy and excitement for what he does. Bishop, a computer science professor, specializes in creating assistive technologies, or applications of current technology for people with disabilities.
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 Charley and the Aquanauts
Sixty feet doesn't seem very far, does it? It's the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate. Two city buses parked end to end. You can stroll it in fifteen seconds. But today you're going to dive sixty feet to the ocean floor, to the Aquarius undersea laboratory just off the Florida Keys.
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 Pursuing
Disease Across All Boundaries
Imagine scientists who turn themselves into “actors” in their experiments
within the human cell in an effort to fight disease. Sounds like a movie plot,
doesn’t it? It’s a reality at Carolina.
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 No
Day at the Beach
As human interaction with the fragile coast gets more complicated,
Carolina's fledgling environmental program is sending students
to study — and work — where the issues hit home.
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 Her
Kind of Science
Dr. Laurie McNeil is not your typical physicist, or is she? With
her wide smile, bright eyes, and witty personality, this
tenured professor of almost 19 years has strong opinions
as to why women scientists are not pursuing academics. It
starts with an image problem.
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 Rock
Star
Students never forget going on tour with Allen Glazner, Professor of Geological Sciences. Death Valley, the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite. These places are known for awesome shows.
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Formula for Success
Ed Carlstein teaches Mathematical Decision Sciences students in his statistics courses.
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Alumni Profiles
Watching the Skies
Physics alumna Heidi Schweiker works in astronomy at Kitt
Peak National Observatory
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