Issue: Fall 2017
Stories
Passport to everywhere
I didn’t study abroad as an undergraduate, but I am fortunate that my research, teaching and personal travel have taken me across the globe in the decades since.
The man behind HGTV
Carolina alumnus Ken Lowe built Scripps empire on DIY, food and travel — and a focus on core values.
Choosing lives of community advocacy
An alumni couple help people transition out of homelessness and preserve historically black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill.
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.
Science sized super-small
UNC researchers converge to pool their talents, creating nanocomposites with extraordinary properties.
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.
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.
Carolina Quoted
When national and international media need experts to comment on and analyze news and trends, they turn to Carolina.
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 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.
Access to innovators
Alumni give students in Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship an immersive semester-long experience in Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurship’s big boost
Cable industry veteran Bernard Bell will lead the newly named Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship.
Digital literacy fast-forwards at Carolina
A pioneering initiative ensures every Tar Heel student has free access to powerful digital tools — and the coursework that teaches them to be critical thinkers and sophisticated users of essential technologies.
The Story of Study Abroad
UNC’s seismic shift in global education. (Senior Cassidy Greshko in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Photo by Jackson Hitchner ’18)
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