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Danny Peralta and the Carolina Works Program
Carolina Works provides financial opportunites to undergraduate students through work-study poistions.

A History Suppressed
A dark time in our nation’s history, the period between the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction and 1950 saw thousands of African Americans murdered via lynching – predominantly in the South. Two UNC professors hope to honor these individuals by uncovering injustices that, for decades, have been systematically erased from public memory.

These Gummy Bear-Looking Things Will Inherit the Earth
What can we learn from tardigrades, aka ‘water bears,’ these ultimate survivors? And what might they help us figure out regarding human health and disease?

The right kind of popularity
Two different types of popularity exist, according to Carolina professor Mitch Prinstein, and being cool is not always a good predictor of future success.

New name, new emphasis, for environmental program at UNC
A new interdisciplinary program in Environment, Ecology and Energy (E³P) will leverage the College’s strengths in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to teach students how to best manage resources in an ever-changing world.

Meet a Tar Heel: Christian Cambizaca
Incoming first-year student Christian Cambizaca has the rare quality of being trilingual — or hexalingual if you count the three computer coding languages he’s taught himself.

New faculty join the College to kick off 2018-2019 academic year
For the 2018–19 academic year, 86 new people will join the Carolina faculty. Here’s an introduction to a few of them in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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