UNC Gillings School of Public Health professors Lindsey Smith Taillie and Shu Wen Ng with alum Michael Essman found a tax on drinks with more than four grams sugar per 100 milliliters reduced the purchase of sugary drinks in South … Continued

UNC gynecologist Lisa Rahangdale believes it is safe for people who are pregnant or breastfeeding to get the COVID-19 vaccine – in part because three different CDC surveillance systems tracking vaccinated pregnant people have not flagged any negative outcomes.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professor Seth Noar launched the Communicating for Health Impact Lab to research adolescent tobacco and vaping prevention with $5 million from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Nihar Vaidya is a junior double-majoring in computer science and statistics and analytics within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He uses computational neural networks to analyze brain patterns found in MRI data sets to predict when patients may … Continued

This Washington Post article features The Barcode Galapagos Project, a research effort carried out by a team of local citizen scientists and researchers from institutions including UNC Chapel Hill and the Galapagos Science Center to collect data that will help … Continued

Researchers from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have generated antibodies that can specifically target sperm, essentially stopping it in its tracks and potentially providing a new non-hormonal method of contraception.

In this Q&A, Carolina Population Center Director Elizabeth Frankenburg discusses how extreme weather events like the ones we’ve seen this summer affect the well-being of people and places and what the recovery process might look like.

Researchers from the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence, RENCI, and the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences shared their storm-surge modeling expertise with the University of Rhode Island to help them improve their coastal hazards prediction system for Tropical Storm Henri … Continued

The Southern Future Initiative will produce works, collaborations, and research on social justice and racial equity in the American South with internationally celebrated musician Rhiannon Giddens.  

The Mediterranean diet has been linked to health benefits including longevity and improved heart health. UNC researchers have developed the Med-South diet as part of a lifestyle program undergoing clinical trials to determine if it’s effective for long-term weight loss … Continued