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In School of Civic Life and Leadership pilot, students to exercise free expression, civil discourse

New Tar Heels will move through issues, literally, in a half-hour program led by School of Civic Life and Leadership faculty.


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Tar Heels first to check satellite data on small rivers

The first-year students’ measurements of a California river revealed new capabilities of NASA’s topography satellite.


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Five research teams selected for Carolina’s Creativity Hubs funding

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 Creativity Hubs seed funding awards. Many of the projects involve faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences.


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The Science of Swimming

A new collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Exercise and Sport Science and USA Swimming seeks to tackle fundamental questions on swimmer performance and leverage those answers in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.


Ria Patel holds her laptop, which shows an MRI scan of a brain. In the background of her research space are coloring book pages created by children who are participants in her research.

UNC junior researches childhood food insecurity’s effects on structural brain development

With a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Ria Patel is analyzing data and MRI scans to explore possible anatomical changes in adolescents’ brains — and the behavioral changes that could follow.


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College faculty members selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards

Oswaldo Estrada, professor of Romance studies, and Anthony Hackney, professor of exercise and sport science, were two of three Carolina faculty members to receive awards from the U.S. Department of State.


A wild horse grazes on the beach with a lighthouse in the distance.

‘Down East’ immersion enriches K-12 teachers’ N.C. knowledge and spirits

Carolina K-12, a program based in the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted a summer retreat for educators from around the state, immersing them in the history and culture of Beaufort, Harkers Island and Cape Lookout.


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