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Genna Rae McNeil greets attendees at the 2017 African American History Month Lecture. Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill.

Professor McNeil’s curve

History professor Genna Rae McNeil will retire soon, leaving a legacy of scholarship, influential teaching, respectful discourse, advocacy for equality and, above all, students who go on to do great things.


Cosmic Rays Film Festival receives $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

College faculty Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown are co-founders of the festival, which will curate extended reality, or XR, media art, including virtual reality, augmented reality and other forms of immersive media for the 2022 event.


Three female graduate students perform research in the water on local living shorelines in Beaufort, NC.

College launches new earth, marine and environmental sciences department

Merger of three units will strengthen interdisciplinary research, expand curricular offerings, and promote experiential learning opportunities for Carolina students.


Brad Dickerson stands on campus staring at the camera.

Dickerson named 2021 Searle Scholar for groundbreaking research

Bradley Dickerson, assistant professor and Kenan Honors Fellow in the department of biology, has been named a 2021 Searle Scholar. The honor supports groundbreaking research by exceptional young faculty.


TEAM ADVANCE: Targeting Equity in Access to Mentoring - UNC.

Making faculty mentorship more equitable

Carolina’s TEAM ADVANCE seeks to strengthen faculty pipelines by boosting mentoring for women, especially women of color.


A pair of black glasses sits in front of a computer screen with lots of data on the screen. photo courtesy of pexels.

New data science minor to launch in fall 2021

The multidisciplinary program, based in the College of Arts & Sciences but open to all undergraduates, will introduce students to methods and applications that are used in basic and applied sciences, the humanities, social sciences and other fields.


Left, Jianping Lu and right, Otto Zhou sit on a wall in front of Phillps Hall.

A Sharper Image

UNC researchers Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou have spent the last two decades refining technology that makes X-ray machines smaller, faster, safer, and sharper — research that’s changing the world of dentistry, medicine, and security.


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