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Rooted: JJ Bauer
The art history professor has helped shape the way Carolina preserves, studies, and teaches art.
Heart Patrol
Grace Wu is examining how job stress drives unhealthy eating and raises heart disease risks among North Carolina police officers.
Restoring Rhythm
Drawing on his expertise in engineering and medicine, Anil Gehi is redesigning how hospitals, clinics, and patients manage heart rhythm disorders.
Data-Driven Heartbeats
By blending psychology and data science, Lindsey Rosman reveals how wearable smart devices are reshaping heart care.
Fixing Tiny Hearts
Whitney Edwards studies how the heart develops to pinpoint when congenital heart disease occurs and improve treatment options for high-risk cases.
Rooted: Deb Aikat
The journalism professor probes how generative AI is rewriting the rules of a free and democratic press.
Eyes on the Brain
A Carolina alumna and her former research mentors are developing wearable smart glasses that could one day support new insights into mental health.
Meaning of the Minds
Heidi Roth has spent her life trying to understand the brain and what happens when we stop remembering.
Mapping the ADHD Brain
Nicholas Fogleman combines brain imaging research with hands-on clinical care to better understand and support children and teens with ADHD.
Food for Thought
Inspired by her patients, Janice Hwang studies how the brain and body communicate to reshape how we treat metabolic conditions like diabetes.
RUNC: Amol Yadav
The biomedical engineer develops technology to treat brain diseases through the spinal cord.