NASA’s Dec. 15 launch of an eye in the sky to monitor Earth’s water follows 18 years of work by Tamlin Pavelsky, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a global team.
Seniors, we celebrate you! Stay tuned to the College website all week as we publish profiles on some of your fellow graduates. Winter Commencement will be held at 2 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Dean E. Smith Center. The keynote … Read more
Whether you prefer spaces with plenty of chatter, absolute silence or outdoor ambience, there’s a cozy campus spot for you. Seven Tar Heels give their recommendations for exams season and beyond.
Graduate student Isabel Silva-Romero studies how ocean temperatures affect the food web on rocky reefs around the Galápagos Islands.
By investigating the behavior of stem cells in a microscopic worm, Kacy Gordon’s lab hopes to produce useful knowledge at larger scales of biological complexity.
Graduate student Dailihana Alfonesca uses creative writing as a way to understand and express issues of identity and trauma, both those unique to her experience and those shared by other Latina women.
Past and present Phi Beta Kappa members from across the country have included 17 American presidents, 42 U.S. Supreme Court Justices and more than 150 Nobel Laureates. Many of the new inductees study in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Carolina professor Marc Cohen works to make assignments in his introductory writing and rhetoric class immersive and experiential, including the course’s most recent unit on non-native, invasive plants with the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
Junior Caroline Norland put her passion for music aside to focus on academics, but a work-study opportunity in the music library reminded her of why she picked up her viola in the first place.
Nestled in the upper quad of McCorkle Place with its brick exterior, you could be forgiven for thinking that Hyde Hall is a historic building with roots to the University’s earliest decades. But the building, which is home to the … Read more
