Former “Lost Boy of Sudan” is pursuing a doctorate in public policy to help advance peace and community in his home country.

Assistant professor of public policy and a faculty member in the environment, ecology and energy program, Angel Hsu is also founder and director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab, an interdisciplinary research group.

Iheoma U. Iruka is a research professor in the Department of Public Policy and founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition within the FPG Child Development Institute. She studies how to promote the health, wealth, and educational excellence of minoritized children and children from low-income households.

Sixty-two new faculty members joined departments in the College of Arts & Sciences this summer. Meet six of them.

Lamar Richards, a UNC-Chapel Hill junior and student body president, has been selected as a 2021 Presidential Fellow. Richards is pursuing a public policy major in UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences and a human organizational leadership and development major in the UNC School of Education.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College people, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book: “The Intersector: How the Public, Non-profit and Private Sectors can Address America’s Challenges,” edited by Daniel P. Gitterman and Neil Britto.

In part one of a three-part series, two Carolina experts consider the pandemic’s lasting effects on education from kindergarten through college.

The Well spoke with two College faculty members who have studied universal basic income.

Carolina sophomore and student body president-elect Lamar Richards is making his mark on campus by paving the way for more students to succeed.

Peter Andringa and Sarah Mackenzie are Carolina’s 50th and 51st Rhodes Scholars. The world’s oldest international fellowship award, the Rhodes Scholarship funds study at the University of Oxford in England.