Global Programs
View a list of global programs and social sciences departments.
Carolina Global Photography Competition celebrates its 20th anniversary
The 20th annual Carolina Global Photography Competition will be accepting submissions beginning June 1. The competition will run through Sept, 15.
Graduate students’ Royster Global Conference to focus on the theme ‘borders’
The third annual Royster Global Conference, to be held on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, will focus on one of the most ubiquitous aspects of life: borders.
Cross-Cultural Connections
Documentary filmmaker Julia Haslett tells stories that transcend borders, giving her audience a window into worlds they couldn’t have explored otherwise, and are already connected to in ways they couldn’t have imagined.
Restoring Rural China
Geographer Conghe Song studies the relationship between land use, change in vegetation and climate change — and social impacts of environmental programs.
Climate change could undermine children’s education and development in the tropics
A new study concludes that exposure to extreme heat and precipitation in prenatal and early childhood years in countries of the global tropics could make it harder for children to attain secondary school education, even for better-off households.
Michael Tsin appointed Earl N. Phillips Jr. Distinguished Professor in International Studies
Michael Tsin, associate professor in the Department of History and Curriculum in Global Studies and academic director of the Phillips Ambassadors program, was recently selected as the Earl N. Phillips Jr. Distinguished Professor in International Studies.
Rhodes appointed interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
As Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences since 2012, Rhodes has long championed the value of the arts and humanities to a well-rounded education throughout her more than three decades at Carolina.