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2023 University Teaching Awards recognize 25 educators
The winners, selected from 876 nominations, represent “the best of what Carolina has to offer,” campus leaders said. Many are in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Data-Driven EnviroLab tracks climate action
At the COP27 summit in Egypt, Angel Hsu’s lab held companies and governments accountable for their promises.
Bookmark This: 2022 wrap-up
We featured 10 amazing books by College faculty across different disciplines in 2022. “Bookmark This” is a feature that highlights these books. Enjoy this wrap-up, where we collect all of the “Bookmark This” interviews from the past year.
Rooted: Karla Slocum
Karla Slocum has worked for UNC-Chapel Hill for 27 years in a variety of roles, most recently as senior associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. She is also a professor of anthropology and the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy.
Carolina study shows habitual checking of social media may impact young adolescents’ brain development
The study provides some of the first findings on how social media usage could have long-standing and important consequences on the development of adolescent brains.
Surveyor and storyteller
Anna Atencio was a member of the first Chancellor’s Science Scholars cohort. Now she helps tell the unseen story below the seafloor as a geophysicist on the coast of North Carolina.
Carolina maintains its rankings as a leading U.S. research institution
Between July 2020 and the end of June 2021, Carolina increased its annual research expenditures to $1.2 billion across all fields, with federal awards accounting for $748 million. The College of Arts and Sciences is the third-largest research enterprise on campus ($134.8M in FY22).
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