2.1.23 | Carolina Alumni Review, Discovery, Research
PTSD doesn’t just affect soldiers on the battlefield. It’s an epidemic affecting millions of Americans. Here’s what UNC researchers are doing to treat the masses. by Mark Derewicz illustrations by Haley Hodges…
UNC and N.C. A&T State University are collaborating on a program designed to improve Black maternal mortality and overall Black maternal health. The program — Building Equitable Linkages with Interprofessional Education Valuing Everyone, or… read more
Two professors in the UNC School of Social Work will direct a new, federally funded Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center in partnership with the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The new Behavioral Health Workforce… read more
A $25 million gift from William “Bill” Starling ’75 and his wife, Dana, will be used to create the UNC Suicide Prevention Institute while working to implement suicide prevention strategies at UNC and across North Carolina. The institute… read more
You’ve probably seen the stellar images from the James Webb Space Telescope. It was named for a Carolina alumnus who helped set America on a course to become the world’s technological and economic leader. by… read more
Environmental health scientists at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health recently published a study showing adult attention spans drop in the hours and days after exposure to fine particulate matter and wildfire smoke. Stephanie… read more
Carolina religious studies professor Jodi Magness and a team of UNC students have unearthed ancient mosaics in Israel that are the earliest known depictions of the battle between the Israelites and Canaanites as related in the Bible’s book of… read more
Billy Sweet ’95 led a federal research project to explain what climate change means for people living on the coast. by Elizabeth Leland ’76 Sailing along a creek off the Chesapeake Bay two years ago with his wife and three children,… read more
Ginna McGee Richards ’90 (JD) asks: Can landscapes become a living map of history? by Elizabeth Leland ’76 As Ginna McGee Richards ’90 (JD) drifted on her back in a creek near Charleston, South Carolina,… read more
Would you hand your 12-year-old a drug you knew was addictive, something that could disrupt sleep patterns and concentration, alter social behavior and decrease the desire to exercise? Would you give this drug if it could rewire their brains? A… read more