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Bricks on the Old East building reading the years 1993 and 1793

Old East stories

Old East, which has changed along with the University, is the setting for an alternative story about Carolina’s foundation.


Researcher conducts health assessment on tortoise

Helping prepare giant tortoises for the wild

Carolina’s Galapagos Science Center worked alongside the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador to repatriate giant tortoises into the wild.


Photo of Professor Noreen McDonald

Making “Public” Economic Data Accessible

Professor Noreen McDonald and her team are collecting data in four major categories: employment, spending, transportation, and housing.


FedEx Global Education Center on a sunny day

Carolina Asia Center and Study Abroad Office Partner to Launch Vietnamese Language Program

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are studying Vietnamese language classes virtually through a pilot program initiated by the Carolina Asia Center and the UNC Study Abroad Office. The courses, which can be taken for UNC-Chapel Hill credit at no additional cost, are administered through SOAS University of London, a world-leading institution in the study of … Read more


Fall 2020 Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine is now online

The fall 2020 issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences — our first virtual-only issue in our 15 years of publication, a change made due to the pandemic — is now online.


Big podcast-style audio microphone sits in front of a computer screen.

Royster Society launches podcast to connect doctoral students

The Royster Global initiative at the UNC-Chapel Hill launched a new podcast series, PhD and Me: The Third Degree, in early September. The initiative was created by the Royster Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary fellowship program within The Graduate School. Royster Global aims to increase awareness and understanding of graduate education across international borders and help prepare doctoral students for global … Read more


The Evryscope South dome overlooks the Pacific from Cerro Tololo in Chile, one of the driest places with the clearest skies on Earth. Many dark cloudless nights give the system over 6 hours of simultaneous observing time each night alongside NASA’s TESS space telescope to hunt for flares.

New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability

UNC-Chapel Hill and NASA measure temperature for the largest ever sample of super flares.


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