Carolina ranks consistently among the top 10 universities providing volunteers to the Peace Corps.
Sara Desberg,foreground, and Shayna Bernstein bake their Challah for Hunger loaves at the Hillel House.
People magazine just named Gabriel Whaley of Charlotte, a UNC senior majoring in philosophy, its Readers’ Choice Hero of 2011.
UNC ranks fourth among colleges and universities contributing the most seniors to Teach For America, according to the group's fourth annual ranking of schools.
UNC's Build a Block project, a partnership to build 10 homes for 10 employee families, earned a national award.
On her missions in Africa, Suzannah Johnston talked to women and children about health issues like dehydration.
Professor Richard Goldberg's classes engineer devices to help people with disabilities live more independently.
Kimmie Garner juggled research and maternity care during a summer internship at Maternidad La Luz near El Paso, Texas.
Central Carolina, (Lee County campus shown), is the sixth school to join UNC's C-STEP program.
Teens at B’nai Shalom Day School and Al-Iman School learned about each other's cultures before meeting at a UNC-Duke Consortium for Middle East Studies workshop.
Roy Dawson holds his acceptance letter to the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jon Parise was one of the business students who helped a Spruce Pine group turn crafts into a sustainable business.
Debra J. Barksdale volunteers several times a month at the Robert Nixon Clinics for the Homeless in Chapel Hill.
Morgan Abbott's Carolina for Amani helps children through sales of jewelry made from Kenyan beads.
Through the ABAN project in Ghana, Callie Brauel (right) has helped people like Elizabeth turn plastic litter into stylish wallets.
Gary Bishop and Karen Erickson created Tar Heel Reader to help readers with disabilities.
Jessica Breland (far right), who rebounded from lymphoma to play college basketball again, is helping children with cancer through her Comeback Kids Fund.
Each pushpin on this map indicates a place where UNC is at work in Malawi. UNC researchers began working in Malawi more than 20 years ago.
The arcH Media Project team hopes to use lessons from Haiti to prepare for future disasters.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center has earned the highest level awarded for green buildings.
Through its teaching, research and public service, Carolina connects with the people of our state – and the world – every day in ways that improve lives and build futures.
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