Category: News

School of Civic Life and Leadership adds faculty to enhance student experience and campus initiatives
The school, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, welcomes 11 new faculty members and two new adjunct associate professors.

Meet a Tar Heel: Julianne Davis, geological sciences researcher
Doctoral student Julianne Davis studies the movement of mud and sand through subarctic rivers and lakes, including water systems in Alberta, Canada, and interior Alaska.

Collaborating with communities on coastal resilience research
James P. Collins, a Ph.D. student in city and regional planning, spent the summer Down East interviewing North Carolina residents about chronic coastal flooding.

Meet a Tar Heel: Katherine Ropp, bassist and linguist
A senior, Ropp has used her time at Carolina to study French in Chapel Hill and in Paris, France, all while balancing her passion for music education and performance.

Meet a Tar Heel: Conor Kerr, undergraduate sport statistician
Kerr founded the Sports Analysis Intelligence Laboratory to connect undergraduate students with a passion for statistics with opportunities through Carolina Athletics.

In School of Civic Life and Leadership pilot, students to exercise free expression, civil discourse
New Tar Heels will move through issues, literally, in a half-hour program led by School of Civic Life and Leadership faculty.

Tar Heels first to check satellite data on small rivers
The first-year students’ measurements of a California river revealed new capabilities of NASA’s topography satellite.

Five research teams selected for Carolina’s Creativity Hubs funding
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 Creativity Hubs seed funding awards. Many of the projects involve faculty in the … Read more

The Science of Swimming
A new collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Exercise and Sport Science and USA Swimming seeks to tackle fundamental questions on swimmer performance and leverage those answers … Read more

UNC junior researches childhood food insecurity’s effects on structural brain development
With a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Ria Patel is analyzing data and MRI scans to explore possible anatomical changes in adolescents’ brains — and the behavioral changes that could follow.

College faculty members selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards
Oswaldo Estrada, professor of Romance studies, and Anthony Hackney, professor of exercise and sport science, were two of three Carolina faculty members to receive awards from the U.S. Department of … Read more

‘Down East’ immersion enriches K-12 teachers’ N.C. knowledge and spirits
Carolina K-12, a program based in the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted a summer retreat for educators from around the state, immersing them in the history and culture of … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill research funding hits new milestone at $1.21B
Investment in Carolina’s research enterprise grew in FY24, with significant increases in funding from private organizations and federal agencies.

Burch seminar explores hidden side of Olympic Games
Led by historian Matt Andrews, 20 undergraduates will travel to London and Paris to study the event’s cultural impact.

Institute for the Arts and Humanities announces the 2024-2025 Academic Leadership Fellows
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has announced the 2024-2025 cohort of Academic Leadership Fellows. The eight fellows are selected from various departments in the College of Arts and … Read more

Student’s research to help endangered corals
Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Rachel Geyer is learning how corals survive environmental stress.

Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms
The University-wide project sent elementary school teachers to Senegal and Ghana to create digital lesson plans.

UNC senior researches cicadas’ impact on food web dynamics
Alexander Smith used his Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to explore how the bugs’ cyclical emergence changed some animals’ feeding habits around the Triangle.

Meet Anna Scott, assistant director of University Bands
The department of music welcomes Anna Scott as the new assistant director of University Bands. Scott recently earned her doctor of musical arts in wind band conducting from Arizona State University … Read more

New study examines social media’s impact on college students’ mental health
A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looks at a possible contributing factor to the worsening trends in mental health: social media.