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Students, an ocean apart, study drama and the plague
An international online course connects students from three universities to explore how theater-makers can adapt, recover and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The first page of the syllabus for Adam … Read more
Spring 2021
All Too Human
PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 45th season has been a season like no other. Amid a global pandemic, when other theaters were shutting down, the company programmed its first virtual season. With … Read more
Spring 2021
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
New faculty in the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship are bringing their backgrounds in public policy and creative teaching methods to help students learn how to think like an entrepreneur, and … Read more
Spring 2021
Building resilience for storm-battered N.C.
A diverse team of researchers is addressing the long-term impact of extreme weather. The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke records on multiple levels. While the season usually runs from June … Read more
Spring 2021
Jump-starting startups
Two up-and-coming companies receiving support through the KickStart Accelerator in the Genome Sciences Building aim to revolutionize markets for medical imaging devices and laboratory products that extract DNA. From left, … Read more
Spring 2021
Chasing sunlight
UNC-Chapel Hill chemists are leading an effort to make next-generation liquid fuels directly from sunlight and air. Rachel Bangle works with pulsed laser light to initiate electron transfer reactions in … Read more
Spring 2021
Where Science Meets Solutions
Interdisciplinary faculty research designed to tackle compelling problems is finding support from the Institute for Convergent Science in the Genome Sciences Building on campus. The goal: Expediting the research-to-marketplace pipeline. … Read more
Spring 2021
A pandemic shapes a modeler’s research vision
Professor Serhan Ziya is applying his expertise in operations research to help hospitals and emergency departments allocate limited resources most efficiently. From the early days of COVID-19’s arrival in the … Read more
Fall 2020
The Great Pivot
When classes once again shifted to remote delivery in fall 2020, faculty across the College of Arts & Sciences, with the help of technology and instructional learning experts, say they … Read more
Fall 2020
A Poet’s Southern Atlas
Haunting images, childhood memories, and both the joy and pain of growing up in the rural South fill the pages of award-winning poet Tyree Daye’s work. The teaching assistant professor … Read more
Fall 2020