UNC-Chapel Hill is one of 28 universities taking part in a major national initiative to transform graduate education in the humanities.

On May 19, Joseph DeSimone’s years of innovative and beneficial work in material science was honored by President Barack Obama with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Grab your headphones and tune in to new podcasts from UNC-Chapel Hill, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Southern Oral History Program.

For the 16th year in a row, UNC-Chapel Hill placed fifth among national public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” rankings, published Sept. 13.

Excavations this past summer in the Late Roman (fifth century) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s Lower Galilee, have revealed stunning new mosaics that decorated the floor.

J Cohen became assistant dean for facilities, space resource planning and capital projects in the College of Arts and Sciences on July 1.

UNC psychology and neuroscience assistant professor Kurt Gray and co-author Daniel Wegner’s new book is “The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why it Matters” (Penguin Group, 2016). Gray and the late Harvard University psychology professor discuss what it means to have a mind and who (or what) belongs in “the mind club.”

More books by College faculty and alumni for fall 2016.

Many rub recipes are for particular kinds of meat, but here’s an all-purpose rub that’s good with everything from chicken to pork, beef to bologna. Shoot, it’s even good on popcorn.

In late August, Carolina heralded the arrival of 4,254 first-year students at an evening convocation in Carmichael Arena.