Vincas P. Steponaitis came to Carolina in 1988 to be the director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences. When Faculty Council reconvenes this fall, Steponaitis will have a new role, as the first new Secretary of the Faculty in 20 years.
Q and A with new Secretary of the Faculty Vin Steponaitis Read More »
This has been an extraordinary year in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The inspiring generosity of our alumni and friends contributed to many of our accomplishments, and it is having an immediate and profound impact. The College had its most successful fundraising year ever, with
From the Dean: Our Best Year Ever Read More »
The PRC2 season-opener is a funny, moving story of a Muslim-American family dealing with their daughter’s gender transition that brings a human face to today’s headlines.
PlayMakers kicks off PRC2 season with world premiere of ‘Draw the Circle’ Read More »
How an unexpected discovery transformed the world and made Morehead, Venable, and Kenan household names at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Kings of Chemistry Read More »
Elected officials in Africa who advocate for adoption of climate change policies may actually lose voter support, according to new research by public policy scholars at UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University.
African voters show lack of support for climate change policies Read More »
The computer science department, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, laid the groundwork for 3-D computer-generated graphics and continues to push the boundaries of virtual environments today.
Through the Looking Glass Read More »
The Olympic Games may have been founded to serve as a political-free zone to foster peace, but it hasn’t always worked out that way. As the world turns its attention to for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, UNC’s “Well Said” podcast features a conversation with historian Andrew Matthews about the intersection of politics and the Olympics.
Well Said: The intersection of politics and the Olympics Read More »
Hurricane season has been relatively quiet on the East Coast so far this year. But the season is far from over. In this podcast, Rick Luettich, director of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, discusses hurricanes and the damaging storm surges that wreak havoc before and after the storms.
Well Said: Hurricanes and storm surges Read More »
UNC research led by biology postdoctoral fellow Spencer Ingley shows that In part, personalities emerged to protect societies against extreme temperature changes.
Temperature helps drive the emergence of different personalities in spiders Read More »
Diane Pozefsky is a research professor and director of undergraduate studies in the UNC College of Arts & Sciences Department of Computer Science. Pozefsky’s expertise includes software engineering and the social, legal, and ethical issues concerning information technology. She also helped build the networks for the 1998 Nagano Olympics and the IBM Corporation.
