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Poetic portals
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, associate professor in the department of English and comparative literature, uses poetry to revisit the people they have lost, unpack their feelings around gender and identity and recognize the small joys of everyday life.

AI Training with a Human Touch
UNC is transforming AI’s future with a human-centric approach in the Ego-Exo4D project, led by an international consortium of 14 universities in partnership with Meta AI.

Conor Kerr is teaming up student statisticians with UNC’s varsity sports
A junior, Kerr founded the Sports Analysis Intelligence Laboratory to connect undergraduates with a passion for statistics with opportunities through Carolina Athletics.

Seed grant funds biology professor’s Galapagos research
Thanks to a Center for Galapagos Studies seed grant, Senay Yitbarek traveled to the Galapagos this summer to conduct research on host-pathogen dynamics on San Cristobal Island.

‘Root shock’
Graduate student Ari Green is studying the experiences of Black people being displaced from their homes and communities in three urban areas.

Precarious workers in unprecedented times
Alexandrea Ravenelle’s latest book explores how COVID-19 affected the most vulnerable wage-earners.
In the Media
A psychologist explains how to master the ‘Hero’s Journey Method’
Researchers Benjamin Rogers, Michael Christian and Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are co-authors of a new paper that suggests that living a "Hero's Journey" may be the key to a life filled to the brim with meaning.
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BeAM MakerFest, Dec. 5
Carolina’s Fall BeAM MakerFest, where students can show off their creations and prototypes from UNC makerspaces, will be on Dec. 5 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. There will be prizes, maker competitions, mini-events, hands-on maker challenges and refreshments. Registration through HeelLife is required.
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