Amrutha Nandam was bullied in elementary and middle school for the way she walks and talks. As a Tar Heel, she founded the organization Special Needs Special People to foster what she didn’t have growing up: awareness and peer support.
Tar Heels have teamed up with Carolina’s makerspaces and experts from NC State and Duke University to produces 40,000 face shields for health care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic.
Despite its campus square footage increasing by 62 percent since 2000, Carolina has reduced its total water consumption by 88 million gallons per year.
Carolina football players has used his experiences on the field and his lessons in the classroom at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School to start a new company.