A year-long project at UNC-Chapel Hill, “Telling our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African-Diaspora Communities,” has been awarded a Humanities in the Public Square grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon, December Commencement speaker Kelly Hogan began her talk unlike most people at a podium. Instead of requesting her audience to put away their smartphones, she asked the crowd to keep their phones out and within reach.
‘Innovation Generation’ receives degrees Read More »
The boom in augmented reality technology could provide easy, 3-D access to friends and family across the globe.
The New Social Network Read More »
Seniors in the public policy capstone course apply the interdisciplinary analytical skills they’ve been developing over four years to address major public policy problems for government agencies and nonprofits.
Public policy seniors tackle real-world problems for local agencies Read More »
Ashley Thrower came to Carolina for one reason: to get a college degree and become a physician. Even when she gave birth to her daughter Ava in 2014, Thrower never strayed away from that goal.
December graduate: ‘Failure wasn’t an option’ Read More »
Theorists, experimentalists, and computational scientists will come together to answer grand challenge physics questions at UNC-Chapel Hill’s new CoSMS Institute.
Breaking the Silos Read More »
Two College of Arts and Sciences professors — Richard “Pete” Andrews and J. Steven Reznick — have been inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. The honor, created in 1963, is among the most prestigious awards presented by the governor of North Carolina for extraordinary public service to the state. Andrews received the
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The Order of the Tar Heel One Hundred (now the UNC Board of Visitors) met in the second-floor faculty lounge of the Morehead Building on October 16, 1975. That warm fall morning, they met to discuss the creation of a foundation dedicated to the liberal arts at Carolina, deciding to support the development and enhancement
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Eli Hornstein’s comfort zone extends further than most — spanning not only oceans and continents but also academic disciplines. Hornstein ’14 lived in Eretria at age five, when his family spent a year there as part of his parents’ Fulbright grants. After high school, he took a gap year that sent him all over the
Eli Hornstein ’14 works to conserve environment, study languages Read More »
The UNC Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab won the top prize, the Milton van Dyke Award, a coveted poster award at the 68th annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics.
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