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Focusing on flexibility
Carolina’s Flexible Learning Spaces Initiative will modernize up to 50 classrooms and advance student-focused interaction.

Virtual archaeology tour brings campus history to life
The Research Laboratories of Archaeology created a walking tour to show the dozen places on campus where archaeologists excavated and made discoveries about life before the University’s founding and during its first 100 years.

The Net Fix
With the mass adoption of streaming video services and last yearʼs repeal of net neutrality rules, how consumers interact with the internet is poised to change in unprecedented ways. Two UNC economists create tools to help industry analysts and policymakers chart a course through the uncertainty.

Confronting Conflict with Creativity
From Chapel Hill to the Democratic Republic of Congo, music professor Chérie Rivers Ndaliko empowers students to come together and use creativity as a touchstone for social change.

Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz: ‘strategic, bold and student-focused’
Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz reflects on his first month on the job and shares his energy and excitement for leading Carolina, a place he describes as “passionately public.”

Interdisciplinary team discovers double helix structure in synthetic macromolecule
Researchers have discovered that a high-strength polymer called “PBDT” has a rare double helix structure, opening possibilities for use in a variety of applications.

English and comparative literature doctoral student curates new exhibit at Wilson Library
English and comparative literature doctoral student Anne Fertig curated a new exhibit at Wilson Library on the history of Scottish Gaels in North Carolina.
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