Brian Hogan, a biochemist and director of the Carolina Covenant and the Achieve Scholars Program, delivered the annual Last Lecture on April 11.
‘Dream big, go slow, listen to others and believe in yourself’ Read More »
The IDEAs in Action curriculum, endorsed by the UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Council on April 12, emphasizes the first-year experience, key “focus capacities” and experiential learning.
New General Education curriculum will prepare Tar Heels to be lifelong learners Read More »
Studio art major Kaleb Lyda ’21 discusses his “Obscura Domes,” which is a pinhole camera sculpture comprised of wood, plastic and glass. Lyda’s work, which will be located on Polk Place, is part of a campuswide initiative called Arts Everywhere Day on April 12.
Studio art major’s pinhole camera sculpture on display at Arts Everywhere Day Read More »
Statistics major Micah Daley-Harris is taking what he’s learning in the classroom to provide cutting-edge analytics for the Carolina baseball team.
Taking the classroom to the diamond Read More »
Carolina senior Ana Soule and her team at the Phoenyx Project are giving new life to vinyl billboards that would otherwise end up in the dump.
Transforming garbage into fashion Read More »
The machines, which have been installed in various locations on campus, deliver fiction and poetry from Carolina writers. The installation is a collaboration between Arts Everywhere, UNC Press, the College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of English and Comparative Literature, and publishing company Short Edition.
Short story ‘vending machines’ come to Carolina as part of Arts Everywhere Day Read More »
The Celebration of Undergraduate Research is a research symposium held at UNC-Chapel Hill each April. The goal of the celebration is to showcase and encourage meaningful UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate research in all disciplines.
20th Celebration of Undergraduate Research April 24 Read More »
In his youth, Boyce Griffith was writing computer programs before he could drive a car. Now a UNC mathematician, he creates computational models of the human heart to improve the prediction and treatment of cardiac diseases.
Cardiac Computation Read More »
Last year, a self-driven car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The woman’s family is now suing Arizona and the city of Tempe for negligence. But, in an article by UNC researchers published on April 5 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, cognitive and computer scientists ask at what point people will begin to hold self-driven vehicles or other robots responsible for their own actions — and whether blaming them for wrongdoing will be justified.
When robots commit wrongdoing, people may incorrectly assign the blame Read More »
A Carolina graduate student helps athletic trainers recognize invisible injuries and protect athletes from harm.
Learning to prevent sports-related brain injury Read More »
