On the Front Lines of El Nino
To better understand the severity of this year’s El Niño, UNC oceanographers traveled to one of the hardest hit places — the Galápagos Islands.
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Global Programs
The Starting Point
The UNC LGBTQ Representation and Rights Initiative has published the first worldwide comprehensive report on transgender people serving in elected office.
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Jennifer Ho named new IAH associate director
Jennifer Ho, associate professor and director of graduate studies for the department of English and comparative literature, will become the associate director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
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UNC debuts ‘Veterans and Their Families,’ a festival of new works, Jan. 8-23
The event, sponsored by Carolina’s department of communication and partners, features three performances by local playwrights inspired by military veterans and their families.
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Breaking the Silos
Theorists, experimentalists, and computational scientists will come together to answer grand challenge physics questions at UNC-Chapel Hill’s new CoSMS Institute.
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Andrews, Reznick awarded Order of Long Leaf Pine for service to state
Two College of Arts and Sciences professors — Richard “Pete” Andrews and J. Steven Reznick — have been inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. The honor, created in 1963, is among the most prestigious awards presented by the governor of North Carolina for extraordinary public service to the state. Andrews received the
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Eli Hornstein ’14 works to conserve environment, study languages
Eli Hornstein’s comfort zone extends further than most — spanning not only oceans and continents but also academic disciplines. Hornstein ’14 lived in Eretria at age five, when his family spent a year there as part of his parents’ Fulbright grants. After high school, he took a gap year that sent him all over the
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Williams is UNC’s 17th Marshall Scholar, will study for two years in the United Kingdom
James Williams, a fourth-year student at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been named a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, a graduate studies scholarship to study at a United Kingdom institution in any field of study.
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Carolina continues ascent as a global research powerhouse
UNC-Chapel Hill is continuing its decade-long rise as one of the world’s top universities for sponsored research, climbing to eighth nationally among private and public research institutions in overall research and development expenditures and sixth nationally in federal research and development spending.
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UNC-Chapel Hill ranks in top 25 U.S. universities for study abroad
First ranking in Open Doors’ top 25 is based on Carolina’s significant number of students who study abroad.
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