Public Service News

Hundreds of residents of storm-battered and flooded eastern North Carolina took shelter at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education after Hurricane Florence blew in at Wilmington. read more

Participants in the 24-hour event dance through the night to raise money for patients and families of UNC Children’s Hospital. read more

Seventy Carolina alumni are serving in the Peace Corps, bringing UNC back into the organization’s top five volunteer-producing colleges and universities list. read more

A new $9 million study, led by RTI International, aims to provide strategies for reducing opioid use among patients who are not benefitting from it while ensuring access to those who are. read more

A new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is enabling the Southern Historical Collection to further develop its transformative model for community-driven archives. read more

Hordes of butterflies dance around blooming flowers to the beat of the buzzing cicadas. A firefly light show floods the spaces between trees. An unlucky ant meanders into the jaws of a Venus fly trap. There’s nothing more beautiful, or alive, than… read more

Has Carolina hit on a workable model for community-based treatment of mental illness? read more

Seven years have passed since the gas grill fire that left Cruz Maria Santibanez ’14 a regular patient at UNC’s Jaycee Burn Center, visibly scarred and irrepressibly determined to succeed as a journalist. read more

UNC’s Jaycee Burn Center has thrived in part because of an imaginative approach to expanding its mission beyond the aftermath of a terrible moment. read more