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2025 PARE Award RecipientsÂ
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.Â
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.