These stories show how creativity gets our gears going — how the art of making and creating is valuable to the work of faculty, students and alumni across the arts, humanities and sciences.

The Process Series, which just finished its eighth season, is a very different kind of performance series. Think of it as an arts laboratory, an incubator where works-in-progress are shown to an audience, often for the first time.

To see the stars, sometimes you have to start in the basement.

UNC public policy professor Ashu Handa learned an early lesson about poverty that inspires his research and field work around the world.

Health geographer Michael Emch uses maps to track infectious diseases in the developing world.

Vivienne Benesch recently became producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Will Jarvis ’16 knew two things from an early age: He wanted to attend Carolina, and he wanted to work in venture capital. He counted on UNC and a liberal arts education to help him develop a life path and the skills to walk it.

Three alumni forge unconventional career paths with their Carolina liberal arts degrees.

You’ll find this quote from French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson on Neal Jackson’s web site: “Photography is nothing — it’s life that interests me.”

From her earliest childhood, Peaches Golding had both a love of science and an international outlook.