Four Carolina faculty members have been selected as 2022 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinguished honors in the scientific community.

They come from the Study to Examine Physicians’ Pandemic Stress, a project led by the UNC School of Medicine’s Mara Buchbinder.

Mark Holmes is the director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He has been contributing to research at Carolina for 25 years.

The updated boosters were more effective at preventing hospitalization and death from omicron variants, a Gillings study showed.

Imagine getting to know Jane Austen better by entering a virtual room modeled after Chawton Cottage, where the beloved author did most of her writing. A new NEH grant will support UNC-Chapel Hill scholars’ creation of an immersive web environment designed to bring Austen’s writing room — and her world — to life.

Through the Juvenile Justice Reform Initiative, FPG Child Development Institute’s Robin Jenkins and Renée Boothroyd are helping the Nebraska Administrative Offices of Courts and Probation create and implement recommendations stemming from a comprehensive statewide system review.

Led by graduate student Jeff DiBerto, the SOM lab of Bryan Roth teamed with scientists in China to publish detailed structures of the entire human opioid receptor family to guide the creation of more targeted pain medications.

A UNC Asian American Center collaborative study with Carolina Demography published in November 2022 will help researchers, scholars and communities answer those questions and many more as they plan for North Carolina’s future.

Carolina Population Center Director Karen Benjamin Guzzo co-led a study looking at the reasons why Americans are having fewer children.