UNCRS Category: Society

Designing Winners

Khushi Shah with a volleyball, Yunus Mouline with a basketball, and Gordan Tao with a football

The Sports Analytics and Intelligence Lab teaches Carolina undergraduates how statistics can bolster athletic success.

Game-Changing Climate

Jessica Murfree sits in the Carolina blue stands at Carmichael Arena

Jessica Murfree studies how climate change is reshaping sports and explores how athletes, fans, and institutions can respond.

Heart Patrol

Grace Wu pipettes in her lab

Grace Wu is examining how job stress drives unhealthy eating and raises heart disease risks among North Carolina police officers.

Rooted: Deb Aikat

Deb Aikat in the Fearrington Reading Room at Wilson Library

The journalism professor probes how generative AI is rewriting the rules of a free and democratic press.

Rooted: Paige Ouimet

a woman stands in front of Bell Hall on UNC's campus

The business school professor studies how finance decisions shape employee outcomes and respond to labor force shifts.

Rewriting Service Stories

Jillian Foye, Mya Fernandez, and John Brooker in the UNC Law Library

Led by John Brooker, the Military and Veterans Law Clinic helps former service members overturn unjust discharges caused by misunderstood trauma.

Serving Those Who Served

two women stand in front of the Patterson Bell Tower on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus

Aimee McHale and Vaughn Upshaw are transforming how communities support veterans, using public health tools to improve well-being.

Bridging Workplace Divides

a man sits in a wingback chair in a wood-paneled room with big windows

Drawing on his experience as a U.S. Army Ranger, Terence McElroy explores how cultural and political differences can foster unity and leadership.

Rooted: David Ansong

a man stands amid a brick wall on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus

The social work professor promotes the economic stability and well-being of families and children.