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Seven students selected as 2024 Carolina Blue Honors Fellows
Seven students were selected as recipients of the 2024 Carolina Blue Honors Fellowship in Sports Entrepreneurship to pursue unique and self-initiated summer internships built around growing international sports businesses.
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers discover new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have discovered that tardigrades – microscopic animals famed for surviving harsh extremes – have an unusual response to radiation. The research, led by UNC biologist Bob Goldstein, was published in Current Biology.
Carolina researcher trailblazes environmental accountability
As a graduate student at Yale University, Angel Hsu traveled to Copenhagen for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or the Convention of the Parties (COP) 15. Today the UNC associate professor of public policy says that experience changed her worldview.
Austin Vo’s graduate research has taken him around the world
The sociology Ph.D. student spent time in France to study “indigenous responses to French colonialism,” he shared, and is continuing his research in Vietnam and Senegal this year.
EcoStudio helps match Tar Heels with environmental internships
Open to undergraduate students of all majors and years, the program is dedicated to the exploration of careers in environment and sustainability.
Plant biologist Dangl receives lifetime achievement award
Jeff Dangl, the John N. Couch Distinguished Professor of Biology, recently received the Philip N. Benfey lifetime achievement award from the Arabidopsis Community in recognition of his work on plant immunity and plant-microbe interactions.
Carolina Arts & Sciences spring 2024 magazine now online
Check out the spring 2024 issue of “Carolina Arts & Sciences” magazine, now online.
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