Our goal is to compare the research experiences of people who are in the Accelerated Research Program at UNC to people who are not in the program to see how well the program is working.

We are looking to identify proteins in the blood that may contribute to scarring of a heart valve

We are studying the ways that counties and municipalities are making decisions about how to use the opioid settlement funding.

We are surveying staff about how they use and think about comfort rooms at UNC Youth Behavioral Health

Through semi-structured interviews with Arab entrepreneurs and business owners, this project considers questions of immigration, identity, and local processes of action and decision making within the context of the food industry and entrepreneurship. The food industry was chosen as food is a significant symbol for identity, faith, and culture. There is also significant diversity of Arab-owned businesses in the food industry.

The purpose of this study is to examine 4 different therapeutic approaches towards improving the 3 year event free survival from 6% to 35% in newly diagnosed metastatic Rhabdomyosarcoma patients.

This project will investigate whether reading can help military veterans cope with PTSD, moral injuries, and returning home. My hypothesis is that reading makes it easier for veterans to return home by allowing them to connect to others, understand themselves, and begin to bridge the civilian-military divide.

We would like to better understand what adverse symptoms occur after cardiac surgery and intensive care and how symptoms evolve over time. We will be following patients' symptoms from prior to their surgery to three months after ICU discharge.

The purpose of this study is to explore areas of discrimination experienced by our community of providers as well as determining areas of implicit bias that may affect how we practice medicine. By confronting and understanding these issues we can better understand our American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) community and improve the care we provide all women with pelvic floor disorders.

This study aims to understand how PR and crisis communication professionals use and enact authenticity when using AI. This is important because AI tools and technologies are being integrated into the industry and there is a need to understand how this changes PR communication.