As anticipation and anxiety fuel debates about artificial intelligence, UNC’s AI Project brings together scholars from philosophy, computer science and linguistics to explore its implications. Imagine sitting at home, scrolling through suggestions for what to watch next on Netflix, when … Read more
Graduate student Marissa Carmi is contributing to research about Oneida history, identity and sovereignty while supporting the larger narrative of Native diversity that has long been silenced. Through research about Oneida history and sovereignty, Marissa Carmi hopes to document and … Read more
UNC psychologist Sara Algoe and her team are taking a deep dive into what makes couples love, bond and stay happy — together. Untangling the factors that make relationships work is at the heart of Sara Algoe’s research. Having high-quality … Read more
In her work, political scientist Sarah Treul Roberts is teaching students to engage with one another across their differences. Civil discourse on divisive topics can sometimes seem like a utopian concept, but to Sarah Treul Roberts it can exist quite … Read more
Saxophonist Rahsaan Barber has played with some of the greats. At Carolina, he’s sharing his passion for jazz and other musical genres with students. Music was a family affair for saxophonist, composer and music educator Rahsaan Barber. His grandmother was … Read more
Blair L.M. Kelley, a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience, will be the next director of the Center for the Study of the American South and co-director of the Southern Futures initiative. Kelley has been a … Read more
When junior Britney Hong began planning her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, she knew she wanted to pursue research that was rooted in her own life experiences. Hong’s SURF project, funded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, was “Revealing History: Southern … Read more
Many people admire migratory monarch butterflies for their beauty and their annual journey across the Americas, but the beloved orange-winged creatures have recently found themselves on the Red List of Threatened Species. Biology professor Allen Hurlbert researches the impact of climate change … Read more
In September 2017, the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship held an innovation challenge to celebrate the naming of the program thanks to an $18 million transformative gift to the Campaign for Carolina. Students created objects out of duct tape, a product … Read more
Think of earthquakes, and images of cracked highways showing obvious fault lines come to mind. In the eastern U.S., those kinds of sights had not occurred until a 5.1 magnitude quake in Sparta, North Carolina, on Aug. 9, 2020, became … Read more
