At a teach-in with students on Sept. 12, 2001, communication studies professor Cori Dauber told the students she feared the 9/11 attacks would become the defining event for their generation – “truly another Pearl Harbor” – yet strangely different.
Two founders of international nonprofits and a military officer have been honored with Distinguished Young Alumni Awards by the General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ray Burby, a professor emeritus of city and regional planning, has been awarded the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s (ACSP) Distinguished Educator Award.
College of Arts and Sciences students Raymond Blackwell, John Cruickshank and Fedor Kossakovski have created a new publication called Event Horizon. It’s a submission-based online magazine that dedicates itself to sharing stories and art inspired by science.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 32nd among the world’s top 500 research universities, according to the inaugural U.S. News and World Report “Best Global Universities” rankings.
Next Level, an international musical diplomacy program of the department of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the U.S. Department of State, has received an $800,000 renewal grant.
A new report by UNICEF shows that 2.6 million more children have sunk below the poverty line in the world’s most affluent countries since 2008. Public policy professor Ashu Handa heads the UNICEF office that produced the report.
Consider the cup of coffee, black as night, At night, all night, beside her on the table, Under the kitchen light where she would sit Staring at nothing, still as a photograph. Consider the way at first the steam would rise, Like phantoms twisting …
Professor Alan Shapiro will receive a N.C. Award for Literature on Nov. 13. In this Q&A, he shares what the award means to him, how poetry is the perfect outlet for exploring difficult topics, and why, decades later, he still loves teaching at Carolina.
Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. He is the first professor in the state of North Carolina to be named to all three U. S. National Academies.
