#UNChero: A Virtual Public Health Campaign
About: In this new reality, it is imperative that we create a space where social and physical spaces promote a healthy, safe, and equitable collegiate way of life. The goal of the #UNChero public health and social media campaign is … Read more
Bringing StepNpull to UNC
About: With public health and safety at the forefront of Tar Heel minds, I present this simple yet powerful campaign to promote a healthier campus: a campaign to bring StepNpull to UNC. StepNpull is a foot-operated door opener marketed as … Read more
Carolina COVID App
About: The goal of this project was to find a way to get the UNC community digitally engaged with COVID news. I decided that developing an app would be the best way forward as almost everyone has a phone. This … Read more
Carolina Peer Support Core
About: Peer and mutual support are evidence-based strategies that can help people cope with stress, fear, and other impacts of COVID-19. These impacts will continue among students, faculty, and staff this academic year, and, importantly, beyond as we all deal … Read more
Kognito Virtual Training for Supporting Our Campus’s Mental Health
About: Kognito is a 45-minute web-based, interactive simulation training that is available to the entire campus. There is one program for faculty and staff and another program for students. Objectives are: (1) to increase knowledge and awareness about mental health … Read more
Promoting Inclusive Digital Dialogue Through Collective Action
About: The current generation of students at campuses across the country, like UNC-Chapel Hill, are simultaneously battling the pandemics of racism and COVID-19, while attending classes. We want to provide these students with the tools they need to combat these … Read more
QUVI
About: As college students, we know it’s hard and often impossible to properly clean your water bottle, especially without access to a dishwasher. In surveying over 250 UNC students, we found that while 95% of UNC students have reusable water … Read more
Remote Solutions for Remote Learning
About: Our Public Health Campaign was designed to help continue fostering an inclusive and safe Carolina environment during these unprecedented times. This community has nurtured us as students these past couple years and we wanted to help make the community … Read more
Route It: A Proposed Solution to Encourage Accessible Transit
About: The Fall 2020 Roadmap gives guidelines that limit each Chapel Hill Transit bus to a capacity of 10 people. From our experiences as UNC students, the Chapel Hill Transit buses were frequently at capacity, if not overcrowded, at all … Read more
Strengthening Our Campus Food Insecurity Response During COVID-19
About: Finding healthy meals can be difficult for college students – 25% of UNC undergrads were found to be food insecure in 2019. With the pandemic and job losses, this issue could worsen. To address this, UNC should first raise … Read more