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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.
A space to talk about hard things
The award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl teaches students how to thoughtfully engage with divisive topics — and with one another.
Perseverance in the Páramo
Recent graduates Liz Farquhar and Tessa Davis spent two months in Ecuador doing research. They share how the pandemic shaped their journey.
A merger of land and sea
Union of geological and marine sciences disciplines erases artificial boundaries.
A (Really) Big Birthday Bash
The department of English and comparative literature celebrates 225 years of rhetoric, writing, film and literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in October.
Students, an ocean apart, study drama and the plague
An international online course connects students from three universities to explore how theater-makers can adapt, recover and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
All Too Human
Amid a global pandemic, when other theaters were shutting down, PlayMakers Repertory Company programmed its first virtual season.