May 2019

Harvey Awards go to faculty work: housing app, game for hospitalized kids

Rohe and Webb

Two faculty-led teams working on products to help people outside the University will receive a C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional Priorities at Carolina, which supply $75,000 in funding toward each project. One of these projects is a web app that will assist people in Orange and Durham counties, and is being created through Carolina’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies by William Rohe, director, and Michael Webb, senior research associate.

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UNC-Chapel Hill receives national recognition for supporting first-generation students

Carolina F1RSTS and Carolina Graduate F1RSTS get together to celebrate first-generation student success as part of the National First-Generation College Student Celebration.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a “First Forward Advisory Institution” and is among the inaugural cohort of academic institutions nationwide being recognized for their commitment to supporting first-generation students.

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