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Spring 2023 magazine cover features a group of peole celebrating with confetti

A Campaign for the People: In our cover package, read how the Campaign for Carolina benefited students, faculty and programs across the College. ALSO INSIDE: Southern voices, Starworks, Teens and tech.

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Bryanna Ledbetter stands in front of the British Museum.

“This experience was the highlight of my college career” Features

Thanks to private support for scholarships and fellowships throughout the campaign, Honors Carolina enhanced its ability to provide students with world-class learning opportunities.

Collage: Top image: Students looks through a VR headset. Bottom image: Image of an Arabic landscape the student is seeing through the VR headset.

Tar Heels build language confidence with virtual reality The Scoop

Virtual reality headsets are a key ingredient in Caroline Sibley’s “Advanced Arabic” class.

A burning log in the foreground and a thin line of pine trees and fire in the background, the entire image tinged dark orange from the wildfire.

Wildfire study shifts focus to helping poor communities The Scoop

A new study from researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill and Stanford University examines the relationship between fire frequency and community vulnerability.

A student flips through a notebook as he is tutored by another student in the Writing and Learning Center.

Gifts support expansion of Writing and Learning Center Features

The center provides personalized academic coaching and resources to help students from all backgrounds and abilities succeed in and out of the classroom.

An actor stands on the PlayMakers stage with the words "The Art of Acing the Accent" on the image.

The art of acing the accent Videos

Hear how actors training with Carolina’s PlayMakers Repertory Company learn their characters’ dialects starting with the vowels and consonants and meet the UNC expert who fine-tunes their accents to create an authentic sound.


Collage: Top image: Students looks through a VR headset. Bottom image: Image of an Arabic landscape the student is seeing through the VR headset.

Tar Heels build language confidence with virtual reality Videos

Tar Heels in Caroline Sibley’s Advanced Arabic class use virtual reality to explore a virtual world with students in Morocco and Algeria in real-time to hone their language skills.


A UNC female student crouches to look at a small wild animal while working in the field.

Wild things make their hearts sing Videos

While studying small mammals in the Blue Ridge Mountains, UNC-Chapel Hill juniors Marie Young and Cole Prezant discover a love for field work.


Colorful flowers surround the Old Well in spring.

Why I Give Features

Donors share why they gave to the Arts and Sciences Fund during the Campaign for Carolina.

Outside, Diego Riveros-Iregui (left), holding a long measurement device and a student (right), gesturing to a notebook. Two students and the mountains in the background.

Carolina wins grant for climate change research in Ecuador The Scoop

With a grant from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Fund, students at UNC-Chapel Hill and Universidad San Francisco de Quito will conduct climate change research over the course of a year.

Fitzhugh Brundage sits backward on a chair, leaning on the backrest, in Epilogue Books. Shelves and displays of books fill the background.

Southern history revisited Chapter & Verse

A groundbreaking volume weaves a new narrative of the South from its ancient past to the present, drawing on top scholars’ work in global and Atlantic world history, histories of the African diaspora and environmental history.

Dean Jim White sits at his desk in South Building.

A work always in progress Letter from the Dean

Dean Jim White shares successes from the Campaign for Carolina and what's next for the College.

Tony Royle looks up as a student holds a small slide above their heads to the light. They wear gloves to handle the slide.

Southern Voices, Future Leaders Features

The inaugural cohort of Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows is paving the way for generations of Tar Heels interested in deeply engaging with the South through student-led research and community-driven activism.

Teens text on their smartphones.

Winston Center tackles crisis of teens and screens The Scoop

With groundbreaking research linking social media habits to brain changes, the center also provides career training and public awareness.

A visual representation of the virtual remodel of Jane Austen's desk. It features a panorama of her office: a fireplace, window, desk and chair, and decorated wall.

Jane Austen’s (Virtual) Desk The Scoop

A new NEH grant will support UNC scholars’ creation of an immersive web environment designed to bring Jane Austen’s writing room — and her world — to life.

A headshot of Jieni Zhou at the Campus Y mural. The mural features UNC landmarks and Rameses the Ram.

College Up Close Finale

Get to know the College of Arts and Sciences like never before in our new social media series, College Up Close.