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UNC professor and world (and space) traveler Jim Kitchen explores the deepest point on Earth

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen has had a busy year. In March, Kitchen and five others boarded a Blue Origin flight and headed to space. His latest adventure took him in the opposite direction. Kitchen has just returned from a trip to the Mariana Trench, near Guam. It's the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. (WRAL.com) UNC School of Medicine funding for research surges to nearly $624 million
The UNC School of Medicine’s research funding reached $623.8 million this past fiscal year, from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, a growth of.