Media & News

Unparalleled mosaics discovered by UNC-Chapel Hill archaeologist and team provide new clues on life in an ancient Galilean Jewish village

The spies panel uncovered in the 2018 dig. (photo by Jim Haberman) One panel labeled “a pole between two” depicts a biblical scene from Numbers 13:23. The images show two spies sent by Moses to explore Canaan carrying a pole with a cluster of grapes.

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.

Unparalleled mosaics discovered by UNC-Chapel Hill archaeologist and team provide new clues on life in an ancient Galilean Jewish village Read More »

New report identifies three critical areas of research for Gulf Coast’s interconnected natural and human systems

Laura Moore conducts fieldwork on the North Carolina coast. (photo by Mary Lide Parker)

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.

New report identifies three critical areas of research for Gulf Coast’s interconnected natural and human systems Read More »

Mind games: The emerging brain-powered possibilities of AR and VR

UNC student Grady Hale (right) demos the Brain VR technology at the 2018 UNC Innovation Showcase.

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 »

Celebrating 10 years of the UNC Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop

UNC Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop participants Alex Yarborough (School of Dentistry) and David Ansong (School of Social Work) discuss ideas during the workshop.

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 »