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Research
Research at UNC-Chapel Hill, a billion-dollar venture, has quadrupled over the past 15 years, firmly establishing Carolina as one of America’s top-ranked research universities.
Facts & Figures
- 10thamong research universities for federal funding devoted to research and development in all fields
- 13thlargest U.S. research university in research volume
- 900+UNC-Chapel Hill research projects directly addressed the health, education, or well-being of North Carolina citizens in 2021
- $1.16 billion+reached in annual research expenditures at Carolina
- 3.000+undergraduates produce original research in approximately 140 courses
Serving North Carolina,
Changing the World
Carolina is a world-class research university where great ideas and creativity flow, innovations are put to the test, and discoveries are made.
Reconstructing the past
Students in a hands-on anthropology course piece together ancient ceramics, learn to fire pottery and cook with pots over a fire to study the history of pottery.
Tar Heels in the field
Through the UNC Institute for the Environment's semester-long Sustainable Triangle Field Site, Carolina students are researching Chapel Hill's creeks to help the town develop stronger flood mitigation plans.
Racing toward innovation
Convergent science is characterized by cross-disciplinary research teams created to tackle big problems and speed the application of new breakthroughs to commercialization. At Carolina, the Institute for Convergent Science is at the forefront of this pioneering framework.
Research Around campus
UNC-Chapel Hill astronomers find hidden trove of massive black holes
Carolina researchers found black holes hiding in plain sight.
UNC-Chapel Hill receives $65 million from NIH for antiviral drug development center
The new center will develop antivirals that could combat future pandemic-level viruses.
Carolina blood clot expert working with NASA to study blood flow, clot formation in zero gravity
In the ultimate use of telemedicine, UNC School of Medicine’s Dr. Stephan Moll worked with NASA to treat an astronaut’s blood clot during a mission on the International Space Station. That led to a study on how blood flows in zero gravity, and if astronauts are at greater risk of developing blood clots in space.