Category: Features
Features
Showing 15 of 208 stories. Page 2 of 14.
Why I Give
Donors share why they gave to the Arts and Sciences Fund during the Campaign for Carolina.
Gifts support expansion of Writing and Learning Center
The center provides personalized academic coaching and resources to help students from all backgrounds and abilities succeed in and out of the classroom.
“This experience was the highlight of my college career”
Thanks to private support for scholarships and fellowships throughout the campaign, Honors Carolina enhanced its ability to provide students with world-class learning opportunities.
New director of Jewish studies center brings love of classics to her role
Patricia Rosenmeyer takes the helm as the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies celebrates 20 years.
Campaign for Carolina: Investing in People
The Campaign for Carolina wrapped up in December having raised over $764 million for the College. Read this Q&A with Jim White and Anne Collins about the campaign -- plus other stories.
Setting Star on Fire
A Carolina alumna has sparked a successful economic revitalization effort in Star, North Carolina, by transforming an old textile mill into an arts and small business incubator.
Lifelong learners and leaders
A new general education curriculum launched this fall at Carolina and is designed to support students as they engage in their communities and the world.
From Colorado to Carolina
Jim White, the College’s new dean, is a climate scientist and a consensus-builder.
Preserving endangered manuscripts
Religious studies scholar Waleed Ziad and UNC librarian Rustin Zarkar traveled to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to work with local communities on digitizing endangered Sufi archives.
Crouching researcher, hidden sparrow
Four UNC students spent their summer in Colorado studying Lincoln’s sparrows in search of answers to fundamental biological questions.
A new day for Old Fort
A creative collaborative supported by Southern Futures is conceiving a bright future for Old Fort, North Carolina.
Can sustainable plastics clean our plastic-polluted water?
UNC researchers across disciplines are harnessing the power of a new plastic to remove pollutants from drinking water. Their work just got a significant boost from the state legislature...
Reopening the world
UNC’s Study Abroad Office adapted its programming during the pandemic, creating new global learning opportunities for students at home while helping others travel internationally safely.
The Polio Project
Southern Oral History Program students probed memories of polio to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic.