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Flyer for Bekah Brunstetter's play The Cake: photo shows a wedding cake.

PlayMakers Repertory Company announces two new play commissions

Commissions will launch PlayMakers’ @PLAY new works development program, which focuses on adding more women’s voices and experiences to the American theater.

Jill enjoying a hike to Cerro Tijeretas on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos.

Sharing her Galapagos research

International Womenʼs Day is an opportunity to celebrate the social, professional and cultural achievements of women all over the world. Today Jill Stewart, deputy director of the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies, talks about her research.

Portraits in a collage of UNC students with their respective art disciplines taken on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pictured from left to right are Phuong Nguyen, a first-year master's of fine arts major, Will Lowder, a senior English major, AhDream Smith, a first-year master's of fine arts major, Maria Manning, a first-year neuroscience and music major, Savannah Midgette, a junior studio art major, and Lucas Pruitt, a junior media and journalism major. (Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)

A creative outlet

Over the past year, as they navigated isolation and stress, these Tar Heels turned to something they can control and lose themselves in: art.

Karen Hagemann's photos is on the left, her book cover on the right in this collage image.

Bookmark This

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. In honor of Women’s History Month, this month’s featured book: “The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World Since 1600,” edited by Karen Hagemann.

A student studies at her laptop with headphones on.

Depression and anxiety among first-year college students worsen during pandemic

Study by UNC-Chapel Hill shows the impact of social isolation and remote instruction.

University Teaching Awards collage. Clockwise from top: Elizabeth Havice, Frank Leibfarth, Richard Goldberg, Brian Taylor, Yuki Aratake.

Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Learn more about how one professor made his large classes feel small and another showed how topics studied in class are applied and used .

Carolina scientists earn prestigious Keck Award

UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How did life on Earth begin?

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