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McDonald named senior associate dean
Noreen McDonald was named senior associate dean for social sciences and global programs in the College of Arts and Sciences in January.
UNC-Chapel Hill named top producer of Fulbrights
The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has named UNC-Chapel Hill a top-producing institution of Fulbright U.S. students.
AAAS selects four faculty as fellows
Four Carolina faculty members have been selected as 2022 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the academic journal Science.
#Throwback: SOHP marks a milestone
The Southern Oral History Program, part of the Center for the Study of the American South, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Approaching AI through an interdisciplinary lens
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.
Historian of Black experience to lead Center for the Study of the American South
As the next step in an accomplished career of teaching and research, Blair L.M. Kelley will join UNC as a professor and the next director of the Center for the Study of the American South.
Virtual ‘zine’ highlights Southeast Asian American writers in N.C.
Britney Hong published a virtual magazine that seeks to answer the question: How do American authors from the South use writing to reconcile their intersecting identities?
How to help endangered monarch butterflies
Monarch butterflies are now endangered due to deforestation and localized weather events, but there are steps that members of the public can take to help.
#Throwback: Innovation celebration
The Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship hosted a duct tape-themed innovation challenge in 2017 to celebrate the naming of their program.
Research on rare N.C. earthquake aids preparation, forecasting
Research performed by Carolina geologist Kevin Stewart and his students in Sparta, North Carolina, contributes to statewide earthquake planning.
Area studies centers awarded $12 million in federal grants
The U.S. Department of Education will award $12 million to UNC’s six area studies centers, which provide resources, programming and outreach opportunities for the study of specific regions and languages.
Excavations reveal first known depictions of biblical heroines in Jewish art
A group of researchers and students excavated a Jewish synagogue and found mosaics of religious art that formed an important milestone in Jewish artwork.
Minor teaches skills in engineering, entrepreneurship
The applied sciences and engineering minor prepares students for a practical application of their skills through five core classes and electives from different science departments.
College DEI efforts get a boost
Karla Slocum, the College’s new senior associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, has made great progress in bringing the community together since she assumed the position last September.