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Preserving endangered manuscripts
Editor’s note: This story is part of a package of stories featuring UNC researchers “in the field” in Colorado, North Carolina and on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Read “A new day … Read more
Fall 2022
Crouching researcher, hidden sparrow
Editor’s note: This story is part of a package of stories featuring UNC researchers “in the field” in Colorado, North Carolina and on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Read “A new day … Read more
Fall 2022
A new day for Old Fort
Editor’s note: This story is part of a package of stories featuring UNC researchers “in the field” in Colorado, North Carolina and on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Read “Crouching researcher, hidden … Read more
Fall 2022
Can sustainable plastics clean our plastic-polluted water?
UNC researchers across disciplines are harnessing the power of a new plastic to remove pollutants from drinking water. Their work just got a significant boost from the state legislature. Inventing … Read more
Spring 2022
Reopening the world
UNC’s Study Abroad Office adapted its programming during the pandemic, creating new global learning opportunities for students at home while helping others travel internationally safely. The UNC in Sevilla cohort … Read more
Spring 2022
The Polio Project
A mysterious disease. Stressed-out health care workers. The race for a vaccine. Southern Oral History Program students probe memories of an earlier pandemic to better understand the current one. Oral … Read more
Spring 2022
A space to talk about hard things
The award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl teaches students how to thoughtfully engage with divisive topics — and with one another. Is it OK to “ghost” someone you’ve been dating? … Read more
Spring 2022
Perseverance in the Páramo
This past summer, Tessa Davis, Kriddie Whitmore and Liz Farquhar spent two months conducting research at the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve. Located about 45 minutes outside of Quito, Ecuador, the … Read more
Fall 2021
A merger of land and sea
Union of geological and marine sciences disciplines erases artificial boundaries. Undergraduate student Joey Carter wades into Albemarle Sound to deploy instruments for research on how waves are impacting living shorelines. … Read more
Fall 2021
A (Really) Big Birthday Bash
The department of English and comparative literature celebrates 225 years of rhetoric, writing, film and literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in October. The department ties its history to the founding of … Read more
Fall 2021