This summer, a member of the Marching Tar Heels is bringing his love for music to residents of the Carolina Meadows retirement community in Chapel Hill, one playlist at a time. As an intern with Carolina Meadows’ Music & Memory program, UNC-Chapel Hill junior Turner Medlicott is helping patients with dementia reconnect with the world around them through music.
Striking the right chord with Carolina Meadows Read More »
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Texas A&M University used satellite images, on-the-ground measurements and a statistical model to determine how much of the earth is covered by rivers and streams. They found that global river and stream surface area is about 45 percent greater than what was indicated by previous studies.
Global surface area of rivers and streams is 45 percent higher than previously thought Read More »
Recent discoveries by a team of specialists and students at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee, led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness, shed new light on the life and culture of an ancient Jewish village.
A delegation from the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) visited Carolina to examine the role of academia in foreign policy.
UNC-Chapel Hill hosts International Visitor Leadership Program on foreign policy Read More »
Improved understanding of the coupled natural-human coastal system will help promote resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems under rapidly changing environmental conditions and support informed decision-making, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill doctoral students are among 67 nationwide to receive 2018 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowships.
Phillips, Walker receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Read More »
By monitoring water quality in the state’s estuaries, Carolina researchers are better understanding the lasting effects that hurricanes have on ecosystems beyond immediate flooding and storm surge.
Leaving a mark on ecosystems Read More »
Most people you pass on the street have a general understanding of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). But a team of computer science students at UNC-Chapel Hill, led by Brian Moynihan of the UNC Health Sciences Library, are not only creating a new way of thinking about these technologies, but exploring new possibilities for thinking with them.
Mind games: The emerging brain-powered possibilities of AR and VR Read More »
Edwina Koch, who graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in Romance Languages and a minor from the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship, started a business with a fellow student from England to help au pairs fill the knowledge gap.
Carolina alumna and entrepreneur makes a Paris pitch Read More »
Every spring, small groups of the most enterprising faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill experience flashbacks of sitting in class as undergraduates. While participants in the Chancellor’s Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop, these researchers and teachers find themselves in the shoes of the students they instruct: showing up eager to learn, collaborating on group projects and working feverishly toward final presentations
Celebrating 10 years of the UNC Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop Read More »
