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The Tar Heel Bus Tour
Meeting the Tar Heel State
As a university built for the people, public service is at the core of Carolina’s mission.
Over fall break, nearly 100 faculty members and senior administrators took a journey across North Carolina to learn more about the state they serve. The knowledge they gained will inform the work they do every day in Carolina classrooms, offices and labs.
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Carolina
road trip
The Tar Heel Bus Tour covered more than 1,600 miles across North Carolina, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the coast, with three buses traveling routes in the western, eastern and southeastern regions of our state.
- 90faculty members
- 28towns visited
- 1,600miles driven over three days across North Carolina
Along for the ride
The buses get rolling
The Tar Heel Bus Tour began with stops in Siler City, Snow Hill, Winterville, Lumberton and Rocky Mount.
To the mountains and the coast
The second day of the tour examined the University's impact on the coast and in the mountains and farmlands.
Coming home to Chapel Hill
The tour's final day included stops at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Durham, Burlington, Wilkesboro and Eden.
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Follow along as Carolina's faculty and senior administrators share their experiences on the Tar Heel Bus Tour.
Serving our state
The University for North Carolina
Students, faculty and staff dedicate thousands of hours each year to helping our communities by performing service projects and participating in outreach programs while also making community-changing discoveries and creating a better future for all of North Carolina through research.
A decade of impact
Since its inception more than 10 years ago, the Carolina College Advising Corps has become an invaluable part of Carolina’s commitment to opportunity by partnering with low-income high schools throughout North Carolina to increase college enrollment across the state.
Concussion care on the front lines
A current multidisciplinary initiative led by Carolina's Jason Mihalik, in partnership with Fort Bragg's U.S. Army Special Operations Command, is tracking neurological function in elite warfighters. Special Operations Forces soldiers complete a series of tests, including neurocognition, balance, vision and sensory performance, blood biomarkers and neuroimaging.
Precision nutrition
Not only is the UNC Nutrition Research Institute changing lives of North Carolinians through its research, but it is revitalizing the Kannapolis community.
Bringing the world to North Carolina classrooms
UNC World View is a public service program that provides global professional development opportunities to educators throughout the state. In addition to sponsoring international travel, World View shares global resources and knowledge with 88 North Carolina school districts and community colleges to help teachers globalize their curricula.
MAHEC, UNC-Chapel Hill serve the state with interprofessional academic health center
UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC seeks to address health care worker shortages and improve education across a number of health science fields in western North Carolina.
