Category: Features
Features
Entrepreneurship’s big boost
Cable industry veteran Bernard Bell will lead the newly named Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship.
Access to innovators
Alumni give students in Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship an immersive semester-long experience in Silicon Valley.
A monumental dig
A large-scale archaeological project on Crete has created an enduring collaboration, an experiential global learning opportunity for UNC students and a future heritage tourism site for the region.
Water Over the Bridge
A professor of American studies is helping port communities worldwide understand how rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change affect shipping and coastal infrastructures.
A love for Latin rhythm
Music professor Stephen Anderson, a critically acclaimed composer and pianist, has a knack for finding Latin rhythms wherever he goes — most recently, the Dominican Republic.
Convergent science gains momentum
Rich Superfine, chair of the department of applied physical sciences, explains this next-generation approach to science and the new institute that will be home to it at UNC.
Science sized super-small
UNC researchers converge to pool their talents, creating nanocomposites with extraordinary properties.
Synergy Unleashed: Exploring the potential of interdisciplinary mashups
In the College of Arts & Sciences, we believe that the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts, which is why we are removing the barriers that prevent creative collaborations across disciplines.
Flight of fancy
An art historian, a costume designer, a math biologist, a biomedical engineer and a team of undergraduate researchers unite to reimagine a breathtaking 9th-century flying experiment —and make a notable contribution to early aviation history.
Helping students explore being Maya
Maya from the Margins connects anthropologists and librarians in North Carolina and Mexico to teach students about their Maya identity.
‘Spork Lab’ tackles password security
The challenge of creating attack-resistant passwords is a perfect fit for two departments who at first glance might seem to have little in common: linguistics and computer science.
Creating a buzz about health humanities
If you hear the word “lab” and picture test tubes and autoclaves, the Health and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration lab will expand your horizons.
High-tech fluids lab attracts waves of research partners
The fluids lab in Chapman Hall is the nexus for collaborative projects in mathematics, anthropology, marine sciences, physics and computer science.
Keepers of our coast
North Carolina’s barrier islands are dynamic landforms in a state of constant change (watch video). UNC researchers want to better understand what that means for the future of our coast.
Sci-Why
Research is messy, nonlinear and rewarding. New courses let students learn that firsthand.