Category: Articles
The impact of COVID-19 on North Carolina
UNC public policy fellows spent the summer analyzing the impact of the pandemic to the state of North Carolina.
PlayMakers Repertory Company announces reimagined 20/21 season
Theater company’s 45th season embraces change and delivers range of work digitally.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s book: “Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights” by Benjamin … Read more
IAH fellows expand field of African American studies
Faculty Fellows at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities are putting the African American and African Diasporic experience at the center of their research, greatly expanding the fields of … Read more
Meet a new Tar Heel: Jayla Cobbs
A Junior EMT since she was 14, incoming first-year student Jayla Cobbs is joining the Carolina community to go deeper into the world of medicine.
Roll out the welcome mat
Their interests range from neurodegenerative diseases to eating disorders to race, class and gender to playing and teaching jazz saxophone. Meet six of Carolina’s newest faculty members.
Department of Energy funds milestone North Carolina-led initiative to advance solar energy research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $100 million in funding to new artificial photosynthesis research projects, including a $40 million award to the North Carolina-based Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE) to accelerate fundamental research of the production of fuels from … Read more
Acute exercise has beneficial effects on the immune system during prostate cancer
New research found that in prostate cancer survivors, a moderate bout of exercise kept the cell count of certain type of immune cells at a normal level, suggesting the exercise is … Read more
Rethinking aging
A Carolina professor weaves together personal experience, observations of others and history in examining how the pandemic degraded our ideas about the elderly and gave us a taste of old … Read more
Candace Epps-Robertson named the first Jonathan M. Hess Term Professor
Candace Epps-Robertson was named the very first Jonathan M. Hess Term Professor. Named for Jonathan M. Hess, a professor at UNC from 1993 until his death in 2018, chair of the Department of … Read more
Carolina Away to support incoming students in transition to college life
This fall, Carolina’s incoming first-year and transfer students will have the opportunity to participate in Carolina Away, a new remote learning program designed specifically for the coronavirus pandemic.
Two take on new humanities roles in the College of Arts & Sciences
Seth Kotch, associate professor of digital humanities in American Studies, has assumed the role of director of the Southern Oral History Program, and Ashley Melzer, a writer, filmmaker and longtime … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill joins Bay View Alliance
UNC-Chapel Hill has joined the Bay View Alliance, an international network of research universities exploring strategies to support and sustain the widespread adoption of instructional methods leading to better student … Read more
Derrick Carr investigates galaxies very different from our own
Carolina graduate student Derrick Carr’s research focuses on how galaxies known as blue nuggets form, generate stars and evolve into a later stage known as red nuggets.
UNC playwright shines spotlight on underrepresented communities
UNC playwright Jacqueline Lawton strives to change the confines of American theater and to drive the conversations about civil rights through her storytelling.
T.J. Turner ’20 combines passion for science, culture and space
T.J. Turner made the most of his time at UNC, double majoring in chemistry and Asian studies with a concentration in Japanese.
Studying students’ COVID-19 experiences
Anthropology research team studies UNC-Chapel Hill student experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s book: “Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife” by … Read more
How to have a better day during the pandemic
Passively browsing social media is not good for you — and other useful findings on resilience and happiness from the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab.
Molecular approaches to detect and mitigate COVID-19
UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ronit Freeman wins support to capture and disable coronavirus spikes.