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Collaborating across NC

UNC-Chapel Hill is part of exciting collaboration across the University of North Carolina System, partnering with other universities on groundbreaking research and innovative educational programs. The result is a stronger North Carolina from the mountains to the coast.

Keep reading to learn more about how Carolina is working with other institutions around the state.

Sharing the vast expertise at UNC-Chapel Hill and learning from researchers at other institutions is critical to creating a better future for North Carolina. That includes everything from the NC TraCS Institute, a translational sciences partnership with NC State and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, to the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, where researchers from Carolina, NC State and NC Central work with Duke University to advance the frontiers of nuclear physics and educate the next generation of scientists.

North Carolina flag flying outside South Building

A key educational collaboration is the Joint Biomedical Engineering Department, hosted by UNC Health, the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with the College of Engineering at NC State. The program provides students and researchers an environment to integrate engineering and medicine to improve human health and quality of life.

It allows students like Sunita Agarwala to graduate with their dream degree. Agarwala, a junior and Air Force cadet, is taking classes at both schools and plans to use biomedical technology to improve the lives of those with disabilities.

Sunita Agarwala

The joint effort has also developed technology for startups like SonoVascular, a med-tech company that combines drug-based and mechanical therapies to treat blood clots in a unique way. The work is a product of a long-running research collaboration between Xiaoning Jiang, Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor in the NC State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Paul Dayton, William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor and Chair of the BME. They serve as scientific advisers to SonoVascular.

Xiaoning Jiang, Paul Dayton and Dan Estay in front of a UNC/NC State flag

Statewide programs