The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has provided $915,675 in scholarships, fellowships and program support to 198 students pursuing study abroad programs. The awards are funded by private gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences.
UNC political scientist Stephen Gent and two former UNC Ph.D. students, Reed M. Wood and Jacob D. Kathman, were recently quoted in a New York Times article about the war in Syria.
The Arts and Sciences Foundation has a new home. As of August 25, 2016, the Foundation moved into 523 E. Franklin St., former home of the Chapel Hill Public Library and the Chapel Hill Museum. Built in 1966, the 13,000-square-foot building is located at the corner of Franklin and Boundary streets. The building was designed …
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Students aren’t the only ones gearing up for the fall semester – or moving in on campus. Like many of the new Tar Heels arriving in Chapel Hill this week, chemistry professor Frank Leibfarth is learning his way around, unpacking boxes and settling into his new role at Carolina,
After a summer of heightened racial unrest nationally, and on the verge of the return of 22,000 undergraduates to UNC-Chapel Hill, about 400 faculty and staff members gathered at the Friday Center on Aug. 17 to discuss the timely topic of diversity.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 35th in the world and 25th in the U.S. among global universities, according to the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
From rivers in the backcountry of Alaska, down the Sierra mountains, up into space, and through commercial waterways in North Carolina — UNC researchers are measuring the world’s water and developing solutions to prevent it from running dry.
This fall, Columbia, Maryland, native Jared Richards will begin a new phase of his budding scientific career as he arrives at UNC-Chapel Hill as a first-year biology student and member of the Chancellor’s Science Scholars in the College of Arts and Sciences.
UNC-Chapel Hill is one of 28 universities taking part in a major national initiative to transform graduate education in the humanities. IAH Director Mark Katz worked with colleagues from across the university to propose “Re-envisioning the Humanities PhD.”
Vincas P. Steponaitis came to Carolina in 1988 to be the director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences. When Faculty Council reconvenes this fall, Steponaitis will have a new role, as the first new Secretary of the Faculty in 20 years.
