The College of Arts & Sciences is home to 13 advisory boards, in addition to the Arts & Sciences Foundation Board of Directors. Volunteers to these boards play vital roles in guiding the mission of the department or program, encouraging … Read more
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a five-year initiative that promotes experiential learning in its theme of “Learning by Connecting, Doing and Making.”
An international team of scholars, students and educators, led by two anthropologists from UNC-Chapel Hill, are teaching schoolchildren in Mexico about preserving stunning underground formations known as cenotes. Mexico’s lush Yucatán peninsula is like an enormous sponge strewn with thousands … Read more
A new interdisciplinary program in Environment, Ecology and Energy, E3P, will leverage the College’s strengths in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to teach students how to best manage resources in an ever-changing world. Greg Gangi started the UNC Clean … Read more
Five global area studies centers were awarded approximately $8.6 million in competitive federal Title VI funding over the next four years. Through two programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill received approximately $4 million for National Resource … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 30th in the world and 22nd in the U.S. among global universities, according to the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, in conjunction with the Center for World Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. … Read more
This photo, taken in October 1961, shows the Carolina Playmakers leaving for a road show of The Matchmaker. Theater at Carolina is marking some major milestones. The department of dramatic art is celebrating 100 years of playmaking at Carolina, hearkening … Read more
UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to two of the world’s most pressing issues: the global clean water shortage and the obesity epidemic. College faculty play a key role on both teams. … Read more
Research from UNC-Chapel Hill and collaborators found that most marine life in marine protected areas will not be able to tolerate warming ocean temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Marine protected areas have been established as a haven to protect … Read more
Jonathan Hess, professor and chair of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures, passed away suddenly on April 9. A memorial fund was created in his honor. Hess had been department chair since 2016 and the Moses M. … Read more
