News Archive

Planting a “Sense of Place”
Together with American Studies professor Dan Cobb, undergraduate students learned the meaning of hands-on research over the last year and a half. They planted a garden inspired by their transcriptions of the diary of one of the 20th century’s most influential American Indian writers and intellectuals: D’Arcy McNickle.

A world of possibility and promise
The Roy and Mary Alice Smith Fellowship Endowed Fund through The Graduate School will support future generations of students pursuing a graduate degree in chemistry.

COVID-19 gets its just desserts with sugar-coated test strips
New research by UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of California, San Diego, develops a low-cost test strip that provides a simple and accurate detection of COVID-19 infection within minutes.

Carolina senior music and English major named Marshall Scholar
Kennedy Miller, a senior studying vocal performance and English, is Carolina’s 22nd Marshall Scholar. The prestigious Marshall Scholarship funds graduate studies in any field at up to two institutions in the United Kingdom.

UNC-Chapel Hill receives second grant from the Kern Family Foundation to assess entrepreneurial engineering collaboration
Thanks to a new $631,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation, a new assessment project will be led by Viji Sathy, associate dean for evaluation and assessment in undergraduate education in the College of Arts & Sciences.

After a wild blowout a few million years ago, the central black hole in our galaxy now dozes fitfully
A multi-institutional team led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces still active particle beam.

College faculty tapped for highly cited researchers 2021 list
Five College of Arts & Sciences faculty members have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers in their respective fields for 2021.