Category: Tar Heels Up Close
Tar Heels Up Close
Emotional Environment
Meredith Emery blends art and science in a multimedia project to change how the public relates to the local environment...
Winning Words: The sports announcer
Emmy Award-winning sports announcer Jim Lampley tells young people interested in his profession that “in live television commentary, it’s all about language skills.”
Winning Words: The health care advocate
English alumna Elizabeth G. Taylor values the power of language as a national nonprofit director who advocates for access to health care.
Winning Words: The stickwork artist
Patrick Dougherty says when you’re trying to elicit feelings and emotions through art, “that’s not unlike creating a great novel.”
Dynamic Duo
Faculty couple Bill Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris are retiring, but their collective contributions to Southern studies and support for the university they love is far from over.
Saving an Endangered Language
Sociolinguistic scholar Ben Frey helps revitalize Cherokee.
Shining a spotlight on African-American history
Mike Wiley was a young actor in 1999 when he discovered a historic tale that inspired him to write his first play. It changed his life.
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.
The 0.3 percent
Carolina alumna Zena Cardman is a new NASA astronaut trainee. Over 18,000 people applied to be in the 2017 class; she was one of 12 selected.
Choosing lives of community advocacy
An alumni couple help people transition out of homelessness and preserve historically black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill.
The man behind HGTV
Carolina alumnus Ken Lowe built Scripps empire on DIY, food and travel — and a focus on core values.
Unintended consequences
UNC political scientists Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks have been married since 1999. They are among the world’s leading experts on Brexit and Europe’s shifting political dynamics.
Celebrating 40 years of jazz at Carolina
Music professor Jim Ketch (left) tells students “once you have an idea of what you want something to sound like, your body has a much easier job in making that sound happen.”
An artist nurtures new voices, from beatmaking to Blackspace
Freelon is the founder of Blackspace, which offers community-based programs to local youth. There’s an emphasis in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) education, with workshops from beat making to computer graphics to radio to puppetry. Blackspace opened its first location in 2014 on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Last summer it expanded to American Underground, a tech hub in Durham.