UNC’s Office of Undergraduate Education will receive $3 million over four years to fund a program for first-generation college students that includes curricular innovations, outreach and support, and pathways for timely and affordable degree completion.
College receives $3M for program to benefit first-generation undergraduate students Read More »
Stephen Walsh is the director of Carolina’s Center for Galapagos Studies and co-director of the Galapagos Science Center, a joint effort between Carolina and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.
Galapagos Science Center: a lab for human-environment interaction Read More »
For his remarkable service to Carolina, chemistry professor Joe Templeton was named the 2014 winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award,
Templeton honored for faculty service Read More »
Black holes have long captured the public imagination and been the subject of popular culture, They are the ultimate unknown – the blackest and most dense objects in the universe. Now add this to the mix: they don’t exist.
Carolina’s Laura Mersini-Houghton shows that black holes do not exist Read More »
Bend it, stretch it, squish it flat. To make something into the shape you want, you have to use force. Maybe a lot of force, like chopping firewood with an axe—or maybe just a little, like pressing your thumb into wet clay. Either way, you’re using force.
Cream of mushroom. Piña colada. A whole Thanksgiving dinner, from turkey to pie. These are some of the flavors of e-cigarettes you can buy online or in stores. About half of U.S. smokers have tried e-cigarettes, according to research by UNC postdoc Jessica Pepper.
To Vape, or Not to Vape? Read More »
In large college science classes, active learning interventions improve achievement for everyone, but especially black and first-generation students, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Nineteen students and recent graduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants. This is the highest number of Fulbright grants awarded to UNC students in a single year, and includes 17 students within the College of Arts and Sciences.
19 UNC Students Awarded Fulbrights for Global Research and Teaching Read More »
Computer science doctoral student Wei Liu was part of a Google team that won two of six categories in the worldwide ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2014.
Liu part of Google team that won computer vision challenge Read More »
Carolina faculty and students often head to far-flung locations to do archaeological field work, but this week, they are unearthing a big piece of the past in their own backyard.
Archaeologists hit pay dirt at UNC president’s house Read More »
