A new shared learning initiative in the College of Arts & Sciences will support student learning and discussions about heritage, race, post-conflict legacies, politics of remembrance and contemporary projects of reconciliation. It will kick off in fall 2019.
New initiative to examine ‘race, memory and reimagining the public university’ Read More »
Meredith Emery, a studio art major and geography minor, was recently selected for the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke Scholarship, a program of The Sperry Fund, recognized Emery’s impressive achievements with a $34,000 award to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities or social sciences.
Meredith Emery is the University’s seventh Beinecke Scholar Read More »
Carolina’s undergraduate students are making meaningful contributions to research every day, and their work was on full display at the 20th annual Undergraduate Research and Making Expo on April 24.
20 years of celebrating undergraduate research Read More »
Sara Cockerham was named Manager of the Year in the College of Arts & Sciences for outstanding accomplishments in leadership and management in the department of sociology.
Sara Cockerham named Manager of the Year Read More »
Jaye Cable (current chair of the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P) has been named senior associate dean for natural sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Cable named senior associate dean for natural sciences Read More »
Henry Fuchs is always looking 20 years ahead, and two decades from now the computer scientist thinks augmented-reality eyeglasses will be the norm. Fuchs and his team of students and colleagues are developing an augmented-reality program to aid in laparoscopic surgery training and, maybe one day, revolutionize minimally invasive surgery.
Augmented Health Care Read More »
Katrina Morgan, a doctoral student in mathematics, has received the 2019 Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service.
Katrina Morgan, co-founder of Girls Talk Math, receives 2019 Boka W. Hadzija Award Read More »
Three faculty members from UNC-Chapel Hill — Kathleen M. Harris, Jodi Magness and Bryan L. Roth — have been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Harris (sociology) and Magness (religious studies) are in UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences.
Three from UNC-Chapel Hill elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Read More »
A new study concludes that exposure to extreme heat and precipitation in prenatal and early childhood years in countries of the global tropics could make it harder for children to attain secondary school education, even for better-off households.
Climate change could undermine children’s education and development in the tropics Read More »
Computer science doctoral student Darryl Hannan has been selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship for 2019. This is a nationwide fellowship that supports outstanding graduate students in various STEM disciplines who are pursuing advanced research-based degrees at U.S. institutions.
Hannan earns 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in natural language processing Read More »
