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Real-Life Value: APPLES Service-Learning Course Instructor Heather Knorr

July 30, 2019 / Articles, Fine Arts & Humanities, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive, Undergraduate Education

Tucked in a back meeting room of the Carolina Union, service-learning leaders from across campus scribbled down notes. Their eyes were locked on Heather Knorr. At the front of the room, Knorr was excitedly remembering the children’s books her students had created during her recent service-learning Spanish course. Beaming, Knorr shared insights on how the […]

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Well Said: Revisiting the Evryscope

July 17, 2019 / Articles, General, Global Programs, Media & News, Natural Sciences & Mathematics, News, News Archive

A photo of a man working on the everyscope which looks like a giant mushroom with a purple twighlight sky in the background.

In this week’s episode of UNC’s Well Said podcast, assistant professor Nicholas Law from the physics and astronomy department discusses the Evryscope, how he and his team use it to monitor 50 million stars and what they’ve found so far.

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Creativity Hubs awards accelerate solutions to societal challenges

June 18, 2019 / Articles, General, Global Programs, Media & News, Natural Sciences & Mathematics, News, News Archive, Social Sciences

Managed by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Creativity Hubs award program encourages and supports diverse, interdisciplinary teams that pursue answers to complex societal problems.

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To Conquer the World

June 13, 2019 / Articles, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive, Social Sciences

In the earth’s long history of rulers and warriors, few stand as tall as Alexander the Great. A Macedonian king who built an enormous empire across the Middle East and Asia in 11 years, Alexander was a man known for his strategic cunning. But in historian Fred Naiden’s groundbreaking work on Alexander’s role as a religious leader, he shines a new light on the ancient conqueror’s rise to the top.

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Carolina Global Photography Competition celebrates its 20th anniversary

June 7, 2019 / Articles, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive

"Parting on Tea-Horse Trading Road," China. (photo By Xiaofei Wang ’13)

The 20th annual Carolina Global Photography Competition will be accepting submissions beginning June 1. The competition will run through Sept, 15.

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Graduate students’ Royster Global Conference to focus on the theme ‘borders’

May 24, 2019 / Articles, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive

The words "Royster Global" are written here with a globe serving as the "O" in Global.

The third annual Royster Global Conference, to be held on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, will focus on one of the most ubiquitous aspects of life: borders.

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Cross-Cultural Connections

May 16, 2019 / Articles, Fine Arts & Humanities, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive

Julia Haslett, a documentary filmmaker and assistant professor of communication, edits her films in her home office in Carrboro, North Carolina. (photo by Alyssa LaFaro)

Documentary filmmaker Julia Haslett tells stories that transcend borders, giving her audience a window into worlds they couldn’t have explored otherwise, and are already connected to in ways they couldn’t have imagined.

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Restoring Rural China

May 10, 2019 / Articles, Diversity, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive, Social Sciences

Conghe Song studies the relationship between land use, change in vegetation, and climate change -- and social impacts of environmental programs.

Geographer Conghe Song studies the relationship between land use, change in vegetation and climate change — and social impacts of environmental programs.

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Climate change could undermine children’s education and development in the tropics

April 16, 2019 / Articles, General, Global Programs, Media & News, News, News Archive, Social Sciences

Closeup photo of child writing on a piece of paper.

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.

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Michael Tsin appointed Earl N. Phillips Jr. Distinguished Professor in International Studies

March 19, 2019 / Articles, Global Programs, News, News Archive

Michael Tsin, associate professor in the Department of History and Curriculum in Global Studies and academic director of the Phillips Ambassadors program, was recently selected as the Earl N. Phillips Jr. Distinguished Professor in International Studies.

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