Home
Meet a Tar Heel: Jonas Laukoter awarded the 2024 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship
A first-year student, Laukoter draws inspiration from favorite authors, the complexities of religion and the queer community.
Meet Michelle Robinson, interim director for the IAH Faculty Fellowship Program
Robinson, associate professor of American studies, is a two-time alumna of the College’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ programs.
Zheyu Huang’s travel photos charm contest judges
The alumnus, who has degrees in computer science and business, has had three pictures selected in Carolina’s annual global photo contest.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College people. The September featured book is “Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir ” by Bland Simpson, illustrated with photographs by Ann Cary Simpson.
Young punks, big waves
Roberto Camassa and Rich McLaughlin pushed for creation of a fluids lab at Carolina in the late 1990s — and now it’s one of the most unique research spaces of its kind in the U.S.
2024 Hettleman Prizes awarded to five exceptional early-career faculty
The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to five promising faculty members who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise. Three of the winners are in the College of Arts and Sciences.
In the Media
Coral Restoration’s Wake Up Call
Until last summer, Pickles Reef was seen as a bright spot in the field of coral restoration. “People have been saying ‘buying time’ for a quarter century. You can’t buy time forever. It seems like you bought that time, and now time is up," said John Bruno, a marine ecologist in the biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
More in the Media
Events
2024 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture
On Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m., join the English and comparative literature department for the annual prestigious prize and lecture, which honors a contemporary writer with distinguished bodies of work. This year, author Ben Fountain, whose work “beautifully articulates through story the widening gulf between American ideals and reality,” is the recipient and speaker. His books have received the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a Whiting Award.
By the Numbers
undergraduate students
graduate students
faculty members
academic departments and curricula,
118 undergraduate programs of study
graduate programs ranked in the top 30
by U.S. News & World Report
of all Carolina students graduate with at least one major in the College
in research funding
of all undergraduate hours at Carolina are taught by College faculty