Preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that can lead to organ failure, is the second leading cause of maternal mortality around the world — claiming the lives of 76,000 women and 300,000 babies every year. A biotechnology company founded by students at … Read more

When first-year Carolina student Kirstin McGinty learned that she would be the first recipient of the Karen L. Parker scholarship, she never expected to shake the hand of the woman her scholarship is named after. More than a half century separate McGinty and Parker, who was the first black woman to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From the moment she first learned about the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center three years ago, Chancellor Carol L. Folt has been an avid backer of the center and its mission of compassionately treating and supporting severe burn victims. The … Read more

For the next several weeks, Karlo Montegrico and two other students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will travel through the Philippines to document the migration process of the country’s nurses moving to the United States. Montegrico, … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s heelprint extends far beyond the borders of North Carolina. To better understand just how Carolina’s faculty and researchers are impacting lives around the world, Chancellor Carol L. Folt traveled almost 8,000 miles to Zambia, Malawi and Kenya.

Hace poco menos de un mes, después de dar la despedida a más de 6.000 estudiantes de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte que se graduaron para emprender sus carreras profesionales, la rectora Carol L. Folt en su discurso de … Read more