When University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sophomore Caroline Alessandro showed up for the first day of English 295, “Reconstructing Frankenstein’s Monster,” she was expecting a typical English class. “I figured we’d be reading “Frankenstein,” analyzing it and maybe looking at some other versions,” she recalls.
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A team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used a new technique to construct what a large sample of 511 American Christians think God looks like.
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers ask Americans: “What does God look like?” Read More »
What makes someone go from simply being hungry to full-on “hangry”? More than just a simple drop in blood sugar, this combination of hunger and anger may be a complicated emotional response involving an interplay of biology, personality and environmental cues, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Recently, the UNC Center for Community Capital (CCC) completed an assessment of lower-income people’s access to opportunity in two sites – San Francisco’s Potrero Terrace and Annex and New Orleans’s Columbia Parc.
Center for Community Capital study: Access to opportunity in Potrero Terrace and Annex Read More »
Dean Kevin Guskiewicz shares his thoughts on leadership in this blog post from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
The art and science of leadership Read More »
The College of Arts & Sciences is launching a new interdisciplinary major in neuroscience, drawing on the strengths of 10 academic departments —biology, biomedical engineering, biostatistics, chemistry, computer science, exercise and sport science, mathematics, physics and astronomy, psychology and neuroscience, and statistics and operations research.
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Jan Chambers is a professor of dramatic art and resident designer with PlayMakers Repertory Company. She’s been working at Carolina for 11 years. She’s one of the many special “Carolina People” who work for UNC-Chapel Hill.
Carolina People: Jan Chambers, professor, department of dramatic art Read More »
Universität übingen is among Carolina’s six strategic partnerships that involve multilayered collaborations spanning a number of disciplines, schools or departments and receive sustained institutional commitment.
In a Maymester course, Carolina students examined the bonds between humans and dogs that are so familiar in Western culture but have neither been practiced worldwide nor for very long over the course of human history.
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Using the largest supercomputers in the country, scientists have reached a milestone decades in the making. The team, which includes a researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has calculated the axial coupling of the neutron, an important process in nuclear physics that governs nuclear beta decay.
Supercomputers give scientists key insight into the lifetime of neutrons Read More »
