‘Study abroad is not an extra’
New associate dean for study abroad brings a personal and professional passion for making global experiences meaningful — and available — for every UNC student.
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Jackie Kenny: Shining Brightly
Senior Jackie Kenny, majoring in English and minoring in comparative literature and creative writing, displays passion and resilience through her roles as a student and a member of the UNC rowing team.
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Global Heel Profile: Hannah Gill and the Building Integrated Communities Program
Hannah Gill has seen her home state of North Carolina change significantly since she was a youth. Gill is the director of the Latino Migration Project and one of the founders of the Building Integrated Communities program.
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An international experience
For Emily Venturi, international education began the moment she set foot on campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Linking academics, cultures and people
A growing joint-degree program between Carolina and the National University of Singapore allows for a new level of student exchange.
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Four students selected as 2019 Carolina Blue Honors Fellows
Four students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were selected as recipients of the 2019 Carolina Blue Honors Fellowship to pursue unique and self-initiated summer internships built around international sports entrepreneurship.
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An Origin Story
Most theoretical physicists don’t see their predictions confirmed in their lifetimes, as it can take centuries to discover the physical phenomena that marks them true. But that hasn’t been the case for UNC’s Laura Mersini-Houghton, who’s seen six of her predictions about the origins of the universe verified in the last decade.
Scott Emmons named Churchill Scholar
Scott Emmons, a fourth-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, a research-focused award that provides funding to outstanding American students for a year of master’s degree study in science, mathematics and engineering at Churchill College, based at the University of Cambridge in England.
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PlayMakers presents rolling world premiere of “Jump”
PlayMakers Repertory Company is the first theater to participate in the National New Play Network rolling world premiere of “Jump,” written by emerging playwright Charly Evon Simpson and directed by Whitney White in her PlayMakers debut.
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Medicine and storytelling
Last fall, each student in Marc Cohen’s English 105 class spent four hours shadowing a medical professional in the UNC Emergency Department, immersed in the organized chaos of emergency medicine. Students then reflected on their experience by writing about it.
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