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32 Carolina faculty named ‘highly cited researchers’


Clarivate’s 2024 international list of trailblazers among peers includes scholars from across the University, including the College of Arts and Sciences.


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32 Carolina faculty named ‘highly cited researchers’

Clarivate’s 2024 international list of trailblazers among peers includes scholars from across the University, including the College of Arts and Sciences.


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Bookmark This

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. The December featured book is “The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture,” edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth.

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Mary Floyd-Wilson Receives Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement

Mary Floyd-Wilson, professor of English and a nationally recognized scholar of early modern English literature, has been named the 2024-2025 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow.  

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Uredo Agada’s “stop-out” year allowed her to research the Nigerian Civil War through oral histories

The Carolina junior used skills from the Southern Oral History Program’s internship course and other UNC-Chapel Hill classes to record original primary sources.

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Jeff Ayers overcame big challenges to earn his doctorate

Battling through cancer, the doctoral candidate in mathematics had to play catch-up to earn his degree on time. A Summer Research Fellowship gave him the boost he needed.

Clara Yang plays the piano on a dark stage with a screen with words written on it in the background.

Ex Machina’s Interdisciplinary Triumph: Bridging Technology and the Humanities

Associate professor of music Clara Yang’s Ex Machina started as a series of questions about machines and music and has evolved into a groundbreaking multimedia performance.

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32 Carolina faculty named ‘highly cited researchers’

Clarivate’s 2024 international list of trailblazers among peers includes scholars from across the University, including the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say

Madyson Barber, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery. The Carolina astronomer discovered a “baby” planet that is 3 million years old and roughly the size of Jupiter.

 

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“The Christmas Case of Hezekiah Jones”

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents its seasonal offering, “The Christmas Case of Hezekiah Jones,” Nov. 26-Dec. 15. Embark on a whimsical journey with Dizzie Jollyworth, one of Santa’s frontline elves. Audience members will find him struggling to find purpose in his North Pole life when he’s dispatched to North Carolina on a special mission — to reignite Christmas magic for a grief-stricken toymaker.

 

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19,000+
undergraduate students
2,400+
graduate students
979
faculty members
43
academic departments and curricula,
118 undergraduate programs of study
12
graduate programs ranked in the top 30
by U.S. News & World Report
80%
of all Carolina students graduate with at least one major in the College
$140.4M
in research funding
84%
of all undergraduate hours at Carolina are taught by College faculty