The question of where glass eels come from and how they navigate has mystified scientists since the days of Aristotle, who surmised that they sprang unbidden from the mud. Now a team led by a UNC researcher has shown that they read the Earth’s… read more
UNC researchers Scott Commins and Maya Jerath are studying this strange meat allergy – and it turns out the culprit is our summertime arch-nemesis, the tick. read more
The region of shopping centers that straddle Fordham Boulevard now has a singular identity: Blue Hill District. read more
Catilin Doyle ’06, UNC’s first Thomas Wolfe Scholar, won the seventh annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry with her composition ‘Wish.’ read more
Earth, she’s seen — from top to bottom. Now Zena Cardman ’10 wants to show NASA what a microbiologist brings to a place like Mars. read more
The children of undocumented immigrants who can get into Carolina have been welcome here. The out-of-state tuition rate makes paying for it tough, and now their special status could be taken away. read more
On paper he was an unlikely choice, but Paul Hardin never doubted that he was destined to be Carolina’s bicentennial chancellor. read more
Tony nominee Max von Essen ’96 shares his struggles to help others through theirs. read more
Librarian Brooke Andrade ’02 earns her ‘rock-star’ status with research tenacity. read more
Drawn to the stories, music and pictures in his own backyard, Bill Ferris methodically built a priceless archive of Southern folklore. read more