Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Inclusive teaching

Kelly Hogan walks up and down the aisle in her large lecture class on biology, interacting with students. (photo by Vijy Sathy)

Carolina’s innovative learning techniques are featured in a May 6 online article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Traditional Teaching May Deepen Inequality. Can a Different Approach Fix It?” The article features the work of Kelly Hogan, STEM teaching associate professor and assistant dean of instructional innovation in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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Winners selected for UNC Creativity Hubs inaugural awards

The graphical image says Creativity Hubs with little icons at the top representing different facets of creativity.

UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to two of the world’s most pressing issues: the obesity epidemic and the global clean water shortage. College of Arts & Sciences faculty play a key role on the teams.

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Computer science department provides an ‘empowering’ day for visually impaired students

Maze Day invites K-12 students with visual impairments, along with their parents/guardians and teachers, to the computer science department to experience a wide variety of educational games and tools created just for them. (photo by Emilie Poplett) A young male student with headphones is sitting with an older female student and they are looking at something on a laptop computer.

Maze Day invites K-12 students with visual impairments, along with their parents/guardians and teachers, to the computer science department to experience a wide variety of educational games and tools created just for them.

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Meet Madelyn Percy: President of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation

Madelyn Percy sits in front of a stack of drawers with one pulled out showing rocks. (She is a geologist)

Madelyn Percy’s work has taken her to Chile, France, Belize and Iceland. She has spent a total of 18 weeks in the Galapagos Archipelago studying soil fertility. At UNC-Chapel Hill, Percy is pursuing her goal of becoming a “rock solid geoscience educator.”

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UNC team wins $1.5 million NASA grant to study water storage in lakes

A University of North Carolian at Chapel Hill team led by geologist Tamlin Pavelsky has received funding from NASA’s Earth Science Division to expand a pilot citizen science program to measure lake water storage from North Carolina to the globe. (photo courtesy of the Institute for the Environment) Pavelsky is shown here with another researcher embedded in the lake measuring water quality.

A UNC team led by geologist Tamlin Pavelsky has received $1.5 million from NASA’s Earth Science Division to expand a pilot citizen science program to measure lake water storage from North Carolina to the globe. Pavelsky’s team was one of six chosen from a group of 16 prototype projects at institutions around the country.

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Latasha Mingo of psychology and neuroscience department named Manager of the Year

Latasha Mingo (middle) with Chris Clemens, senior associate dean for natural sciences; and Karen Gil, former dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Pederson Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience. (photo by Kristen Chavez) Mingo is holding her check and award.

Latasha Mingo, department manager for psychology and neuroscience, has been named Manager of the Year in the College of Arts & Sciences. The award was presented at the College’s Award in Management luncheon on April 18.

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UNC-Chapel Hill selects “Popular” for 2018 Summer Reading Program

Mitch Prinstein (photo by Somer Hadley, Revolution Studios)

“Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World that Cares Too Much about the Wrong Kinds of Relationships” is the 2018 selection for the Carolina Summer Reading Program. The book is written by UNC-Chapel Hill Psychology Professor Mitch Prinstein.

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