The News & Observer’s Tar Heel of the Month honors residents who have made significant contributions to the Triangle, North Carolina and beyond. At the end of the year, a Tar Heel of the Year is named ...

Ralph Baric, seen here at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health laboratory in September 2021, has over four decades of researching coronaviruses built the foundation for the rapid response and ...

In just a few years scientist Ralph Baric went from being heralded as a global leader in public-health focused coronavirus research, to a target of unproven accusations that he helped start a pandemic ...

For years Dr. Ralph Baric studied viruses that hardly anyone was paying attention to. Now, as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic that’s taking hundreds of thousands of lives, it is looking to ...