Issue: Spring 2020
The Frog Family: The Pfennigs dig amphibians. Plus: The Lion of Greenlaw; Sleuths in the Archives and more.
Stories
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Singing to heal and connect
Carolina alumnus founds Chicago-area choirs for adults with early-stage memory loss.
India rising
An international economist is the director of a new initiative that will advance knowledge and understanding of India’s emergence as an economic powerhouse.
Molecule maker
Polymer chemist Frank Leibfarth is rethinking plastics, with a focus on sustainability.
Preserving an accurate visual history
An art historian is leading efforts to inform decision-makers about the historical implications of digital reproduction methods, particularly for people of color.
Leader, advocate, entrepreneur
Service is the thread that runs through Chris Suggs’ endeavors, from founding an organization to help teens in his hometown to serving as president of the Black Student Movement at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Giving voice to the marginalized
A graduate student is using digital humanities tools to examine musical recordings from prisons in the American South to bring the true stories of the recordings to light.
Transformational gift to fund new sports medicine complex
A transformational gift from Don and Billie Stallings will fund the physical expansion of current University programs dedicated to sports medicine, sport-related traumatic brain injury and concussion research, and create the Stallings-Evans Sports Medicine Complex.
#Throwback: Happy 100 years, sociology
Sociology marks its centennial birthday this year.
Estimating the global extent of river ice loss
A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers found that annual river ice cover will decline by about six days for every one degree Celsius increase in global temperatures.
Mellon-funded undergraduate fellows develop new public humanities projects
The inaugural class of Humanities Futures undergraduate fellows began work this spring as part of the Humanities for the Public Good initiative.
A virtual museum of ancient N.C. history
Ancient North Carolinians is a new virtual museum that raises awareness of the 15,000-year history of North Carolina’s indigenous populations.
Meaning of emotions may differ across the world
Psychology researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill studied languages around the world and found that the meaning of emotions may differ across speakers of different languages.
University adds new Korean studies major
Thirteen years after 23 students enrolled in the first Korean language class at Carolina, the University has added a major in Korean studies.
Discovering a new fundamental underwater force
A team of mathematicians from UNC-Chapel Hill and Brown University has discovered a new fundamental underwater force.