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Carolina cluster hire program will strengthen substance use disorder research

As a strategy of the Research Roadmap, Carolina is hiring up to four researchers to build a new cross-disciplinary team that expands the University’s capacity to develop resources for our communities.

Rooted: Paul Mihas

Paul Mihas is the assistant director of qualitative and mixed methods research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. He has been contributing to research at Carolina for 33 years.

Landmark study from SOM reveals that 100,000 American youth are living with inflammatory bowel disease

A comprehensive analysis published in the journal Gastroenterology shows that U.S. pediatric IBD rates have increased, ranking among the highest globally.

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