Filling Up The Truck
Led by Carolina athletics teams and the Carolina Center for Public Service, the campus community filled the football team’s 18-wheel equipment truck with donations to deliver to communities impacted by Hurricane Florence.
Serving our state
Whether it’s working directly with communities to overcome challenges or conducting impactful research in labs to find solutions to pressing issues, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is dedicated to serving the people of North Carolina. As a university built for the people, public service is at the core of Carolina's mission.
Tar Heels giving back to North Carolina
Dental School students provide more than 1,600 hours of service in single day
More than 400 UNC School of Dentistry students, staff and faculty provided 1,624 hours of service to the local community on its fourth annual day of service.
From one field to another
Carolina alumnus Jason Brown had become one of the top centers in the NFL, earning him a lucrative $37.5 million contract. Three years later, he hung up his cleats to become a farmer to fight hunger in North Carolina.
Serving in rural and underserved areas in North Carolina
The Kenan Primary Care Medical Scholars Program gives medical students an opportunity to complete a six-week summer internship at a rural health care clinic. Each student works with a primary care physician to see the clinic’s day-to-day operations and the variety of care these doctors provide.
Improving lives with research
Bringing healthy food to all consumers
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health professor Alice Ammerman is working to provide locally-sourced, nutritious meals to communities in need.
Saving lives through stories
The Southern Oral History Program launched a major research initiative to collect oral histories in rural North Carolina communities that will inform health care research, practice and policy.
Protecting homes and ecosystems with living shorelines
Doctoral student Carter Smith is researching living shorelines as an economic way for coastal homeowners to protect their property while also doing something good for the environment.