Category: Articles
Computer scientist Mohit Bansal receives two prestigious awards
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded the prestigious Director’s Fellowship to assistant professor Mohit Bansal. He has also received the Microsoft Investigator Fellowship, a two-year fellowship that recognizes … Read more
Taj recognized as 2020 MLK Unsung Hero
Associate professor Afroz Taj of the Asian studies department was the faculty honoree while the staff honoree was Dawna Jones, assistant dean of students and chair of the Carolina Black … Read more
Transformational gift to fund new sports medicine complex
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced a transformational gift to support constructing a sports medicine complex that will enable further advances in its world-leading traumatic brain … Read more
Well Said: A profession of mythic proportions
On this week’s podcast, author and Carolina professor Daniel Wallace gives us a look into the life and the mind of a writer.
Four graduate students win Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Four students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were awarded grants under the 2019 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellows Program.
The Timber Chronicles
As a paleoclimatologist, Erika Wise studies climate trends from the past thousand years. Her methods of inquiry may be complicated — using microscopic crossdating and isotope analysis — but her … Read more
Short Story Vending Machines Connect UNC Writers and Readers
The vending machines installed last spring around campus and the Chapel Hill community are serving up something different—short stories and poetry written by faculty, students, and staff, along with short … Read more
#GDTBATH: Sakari Singleton
While studying abroad in Spain last semester, Sakari Singleton built relationships with the local community and with other international students, learning how to connect with strangers through a language that … Read more
Scenes from around the globe
Entries in the Carolina Global Photography Competition show a range of global activity, educational opportunities, research and service work.
PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents Everybody, by 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly presents “Everybody,” the award-winning, Pulitzer Prize finalist comedy directed by Orlando Pabotoy that asks us to consider: What is a life well lived?
Exploring the changing coast of North Carolina
Hard science and creative writing combine in a Carolina course that explores one of the state’s most magnificent treasures.
Serving the Chapel Hill community
As senior Tai Huynh begins his final semester at Carolina, he’ll be splitting time between his computer science courses and serving the Town of Chapel Hill as a Town Council … Read more
Personalized drug delivery in 3D
On a mission for innovation and translational science, Rahima Benhabbour is using 3D-printing technology and her startup company AnelleO to create a breakthrough in women’s health.
Marley Davis-Martin selected as 2020 Carolina Blue Honors Fellow
One student was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Carolina Blue Honors Fellowship to pursue a unique and self-initiated summer internship built around international sports entrepreneurship.
Impact Award, Horizon Award recipients selected for 2020
Seventeen UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students and recent graduate alumni have been selected to receive The Graduate School’s 2020 Impact Awards and Horizon Awards.
Science = Art
Let these winners from CHANL’s Scientific Art Competition inspire you to enter your own art.
Correcting vaccine misinformation is a difficult process, Carolina study shows
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers examined how negative media coverage of the HPV vaccine impacted vaccination rates in Denmark to better understand the damage misinformation causes.
The 10-minute fitness plan
Associate professor Abbie Smith-Ryan’s research shows that short periods of exercise can yield relatively quick health improvements.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni, published on the first Friday of every month during the academic year. … Read more
New study estimates the global extent of river ice loss as Earth warms
A new study “The past and future of global river ice” from researchers in the Department of Geological Sciences was published in the journal Nature. It is the first study … Read more