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UNC Research Stories, Issue 1
PUBLISHED BY: UNC Research
PUBLICATION TYPE: Print Magazine
PUBLICATION DATE: October 1, 2024
CONTACT: Alyssa LaFaro, Research Communications Manager
Creating symbiosis between humans and AI. Your child’s brain on plastics. Poems as gateways to other worlds. These projects and more are highlighted in the first annual print edition of UNC Research Stories.
UNC Research Stories is an evolution of Endeavors magazine, which was UNC-Chapel Hill’s research magazine for 40 years. The first issue was released in late 1984, and an office was built around print publication production. By the mid-1990s, a small staff was producing three issues a year and managing a new website to further disseminate articles. When print production halted in 2012, the office was reformed and renamed under a new director, becoming the UNC Office of Research Communications. The magazine lived in a digital-only format until 2019, when the team created an annual print edition. Since then, we’ve grown our distribution from just 2,000 copies to nearly 40,000.
UNC Research Stories is a storytelling engine for curious people who want to learn why researchers entered their fields and how their projects impact North Carolina and beyond. Our long-form articles, photo stories, and short documentary-style videos engage current and new readers to grow support for the university and its research. We publish new content each month online, share it through an e-newsletter, and produce an annual print edition featuring the best stories of the academic year.