Geographer Javier Arce-Nazario uses innovative mapping technologies to help communities in the Galapagos Islands, Puerto Rico and beyond. Maps are vital in connecting one place to another, and technology makes this possible in mere seconds. Javier Arce-Nazario sees an equally … Read more

North Carolina, the Old North State, is an ocean wave breaking, a fiddler sawing away in the mountain night, a hundred Ayrshire milk cows lowing in a Piedmont dawn, the sound burst of a B3 organ and joyful voices raised … Read more

In a lesson pulled from more than 40 years of teaching marketing, John Hood Summey ’62 knew that he wanted to make a positive impact on the world using a “benefits structure analysis.” John and his late wife, Edith (Edie) … Read more

“To whom much is given, much is required.” This is what Latonya Brown-Puryear always remembers her father saying. The physician took his words to heart when she endowed a scholarship to the Summer Bridge Program. “It is an honor to … Read more

Do you ever wish you could take time off to travel the world for a year? Thanks to the Mackenzie Family Global Gap Year Fund, some Carolina students are doing just that before they even set foot on campus. Carolina … Read more

Karla Slocum became the College’s first associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion last July. She is the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy in the department of anthropology. We chatted with Slocum about her work since taking … Read more

Courtney Rivard, a teaching associate professor in the department of English and comparative literature, was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Integrating Storytelling & Critical Game Studies into the Curriculum.” Rivard’s approximately $55,000 … Read more

The Association of American Universities has selected five STEM departments at America’s leading research universities, including the department of biology in the College of Arts & Sciences, to host demonstration projects in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching. The departments will … Read more

Remember alpha, the first COVID-19 variant? Alpha put the world on alert that mutations can change everything we thought we knew — within mere weeks — about what to expect from COVID-19. Back then, economist Peter Reinhard Hansen was skeptical … Read more

An interdisciplinary team led by scientists from UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of California, San Diego have designed a rapid and sensitive lateral flow assay that has the potential to become the gold standard for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants. … Read more