{"id":16773,"date":"2016-11-11T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.sites.unc.edu\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:29:42","slug":"makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=16773","title":{"rendered":"Creating a community of makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creating a community of makers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vsDE3yACzTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrated the grand opening of its newest state-of-the-art campus makerspace on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p>At 3,500 square feet, the Murray Hall makerspace is the largest of the three campus facilities and will become the central hub of the <a href=\"http:\/\/beam.unc.edu\/\">BeAM (Be A Maker) network<\/a>. It includes fully equipped rooms for woodworking, metalworking, digital fabrication and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see making as a cross-cutting activity that has always happened across campus,\u201d said Rich Superfine, the Taylor Williams Distinguished Professor\u00a0of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences. \u201cWhat\u2019s new is to create a community of makers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Murray Hall space joins makerspaces in Kenan Science Library and the Hanes Art Center (the Kenan facility is a partnership of BeAM and University Libraries\u2019 Research Hub). Together, they are designed for the Carolina community \u2014 students, faculty and staff \u2014 to connect with one another to design and create physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to holding workshops for students on topics such as 3-D design, laser cutting and wireless networking, the Murray Hall makerspace is also being used by professors to teach specific lessons in classes ranging from biomedical engineering to sociology.<\/p>\n<p>The art of \u201cmaking\u201d bridges interdisciplinary boundaries and champions the teamwork necessary for ambitious and complex projects.<\/p>\n<p>Biologist Kriti Sharma researches soil microorganisms. The availability of the 3-D printers in the Kenan Science Library allowed the Ph.D. candidate to create a customized device to study bacteria in the soil and under microscopes.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma agrees that making is nothing new \u2014 whether it\u2019s to solve a problem or to create something beautiful. \u201cIt\u2019s a fairly ordinary human activity. Long before I even entered science, I was already doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a schedule of makerspace workshops, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/beam.unc.edu\/events\">http:\/\/beam.unc.edu\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video and story by Kristen Chavez, College of Arts and Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Arts and Sciences celebrated the grand opening of its newest state-of-the-art campus makerspace on Nov. 16. 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