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UNC Research is the Universityโ€™s research enterprise. It provides opportunities and advances solutions to solve the most critical problems of today and tomorrow.

Driving Research, Accelerating Discovery and Translation

UNC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research provides support throughout the research lifecycle. It facilitates strategic guidance so that the UNC Research enterprise thrives.

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13th
top-ranked university

in the United States for federal research, totaling $950M annually

$1.6B

in sponsored research from all sources annually

7th

largest public US research university in research volume and annual expenditures

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From Song to Science

Briana Nave is challenging what it means to be musically talented by examining how talent has been defined historically.

Scenes of Resilience

Filmmaker Aayas Joshi turns his camera toward communities reshaped by environmental changes, documenting their stories with care.

Making Renewables Reliable

Victoria Farella is reimagining insurance to encourage clean energy investment for a more resilient society.

Research for a Better Tomorrow

The UNC Research Roadmap, Carolina’s strategic plan for research, leverages our existing strengths and prioritizes investments in five key areas, helping grow UNC’s research activity to $2 billion by 2034

Applying AI to Benefit
and Save Lives

Preventing and Curing Diseases

Accelerating Environmental
and Renewable Solutions

Optimizing Brain Health
and Well-being

Building Healthy
and Resilient Communities

Research Roadmap
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Live Science

Ancient โ€˜alien-likeโ€™ skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why

Matthew Velasco in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences discusses cranial modification among pre-Hispanic people of the Peruvian Andes and how its meanings may vary across cultures.
NPR

GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next?

Klara Klein in the UNC School of Medicine discusses a recent study on GLP-1 drugs and diabetes, noting reasons for enthusiasm and its limitations.
CBS 17

As rare genetic disorder causes her son to regress, Carrboro mom teams up with UNC doctor studying new treatment 

Joseph Muenzer, a distinguished professor, researcher and pediatric geneticist in the UNC School of Medicineโ€™s pediatrics department, talks about the treatment he has been leading for a local child with Hunter syndrome.