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2025 PARE Award Recipients 

September 16, 2025

Each year, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Meet this year’s recipients and learn about their areas of interest. 

Carolina researchers hard at work during hurricane season

September 5, 2025

Multiple tropical events have already battered North Carolina this year, but UNC-Chapel Hill researchers are studying important storm management strategies to keep our communities safe.

Eshelman Innovation Translational Academy nurtures talent and technology

September 2, 2025

Brianna Vickerman’s discovery could potentially revolutionize treatment for all sorts of conditions, from life-threatening blood clots to cancer. The Academy is helping her commercialize that research.

Why it’s hard to cope with change

August 25, 2025

Andrea Hussong in the College of Arts and Sciences discusses why humans struggle with big changes and how we can build resilience to cope with them more effectively.

Reusable wearable patch promises cleaner future for medical monitoring

August 21, 2025

Postdoctoral researcher Kihyun Lee in the College of Arts and Sciences led a team in creating a soft, breathable fabric that can monitor the body’s electrical signals, and then be melted down and remade for future use.

Undergraduate spends summer studying N.C. coral

August 21, 2025

Senior Ella Hennessey used a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study how a specific feature of N.C. coral could help save tropical varieties from destructive coral bleaching.

NC Collaboratory funds critical environmental research

July 31, 2025

Check out three projects on water quality, lithium mining, and marsh restoration that are protecting the state and its residents.

Groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention injection approved by FDA

July 31, 2025

The School of Medicine’s Joe Eron led a clinical trial on the new medication, which has the potential to resolve the HIV epidemic around the world.

Solving a shortage with virtual nurses

July 16, 2025

A new study from the Kenan-Flagler Business School shows that virtual nursing cuts hospital stays by more than 7% and reduces readmissions, helping address the nurse shortage.

Identifying vitamins that help and hurt cancer growth

July 16, 2025

The Nutrition Research Institute’s Madeline Childress is exploring a promising new mechanism in the world of anti-metabolites — a type of cancer treatment that works by starving cancer cells of the nutrients they need to grow.