Senior biomedical engineering student Jeff Powell used a 3-D printer in the basement of Phillips Hall to build a prosthetic hand for 7-year-old Holden Mora of Chapel Hill.
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Professor Alan Shapiro will receive a N.C. Award for Literature on Nov. 13. In this Q&A, he shares what the award means to him, how poetry is the perfect outlet for exploring difficult topics, and why, decades later, he still loves teaching at Carolina.
Shapiro: Receiving state’s top award for literature is ‘very sweet’ Read More »
Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. He is the first professor in the state of North Carolina to be named to all three U. S. National Academies.
DeSimone elected to all three branches of the National Academies Read More »
UNC biologists may have good news for male songbirds: You might not have to be a stud to attract a mate. The work not only means good news for male birds that are not at the top of the pecking order, but it could be important for the survival of the species.
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The Burch Field Research Seminar on Domestic and International Affairs offers undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a unique learning, living and internship opportunity in Washington, D.C.
Living, learning, interning through the Burch seminar in D.C. Read More »
Six global and area studies centers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive approximately $10.1 million in competitive federal Title VI grants over the next four years.
UNC Global and Area Studies Centers Awarded $10.1 Million in Federal Education Grants Read More »
Curators at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., selected 102 artists from across the country to display their work at “State of the Art.” The exhibit features work by UNC art professor Jeff Whetstone.
The Artist and the Snake: A Collaboration Read More »
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 »
Sixty-one percent of immigrants in North Carolina have no health insurance coverage, yet the majority believe that health insurance is a necessity they would not give up if they could afford it, according to a new UNC study.
How to increase health care enrollment for N.C.’s immigrants Read More »
Since 2006, music professor Mark Katz has turned to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities for the opportunities that he says have made him a better scholar, educator and leader. He became director of the IAH in July.
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