First Year Seminar: Robotics with LEGO

Students enrolled in “Robotics with LEGO” do have fun, but this First Year Seminar is hardly child’s play. Students in the course learn the process of basic computer software design, as well some simple mechanical design. (CLICK ON HEADLINE FOR VIDEO EXTRA).. [more]

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Wilson wins UNC scholarship in creative writing

Incoming first-year student Heather P. Wilson of Exeter, N.H., has been awarded a 2012 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full four-year merit scholarship in creative writing, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... [more]

Chronicling slaves' search for lost family members

UNC historian Heather Williams tells the stories of slave members' search for lost family members after the Civil War in her new book, "Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery.".. [more]

UNC academic advisers win national advising awards

Five academic advisers in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have won 2012 national advising awards for making significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising. The awards will be presented.. [more]

Neal named director of Center for the Study of the American South

UNC Music Professor Jocelyn Neal, co-editor of the journal Southern Cultures and a scholar of commercial country music and American popular music, has been appointed director of the Center for the Study of the American South, effective July 1, 2012... [more]

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