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Feed your reading habit: More books by College faculty and alumni
Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (West Virginia University Press) by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy, UNC professors and associate deans in the Office of … Continued
Fall 2022
Historian of Black experience to lead Center for the Study of the American South
Blair L.M. Kelley, a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience, will be the next director of the Center for the Study of the American South and … Continued
Fall 2022
Virtual ‘zine’ highlights Southeast Asian American writers in N.C.
When junior Britney Hong began planning her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, she knew she wanted to pursue research that was rooted in her own life experiences. Hong’s SURF project, funded … Continued
Fall 2022
How to help endangered monarch butterflies
Many people admire migratory monarch butterflies for their beauty and their annual journey across the Americas, but the beloved orange-winged creatures have recently found themselves on the Red List of Threatened Species. … Continued
Fall 2022
#Throwback: Innovation celebration
In September 2017, the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship held an innovation challenge to celebrate the naming of the program thanks to an $18 million transformative gift to the Campaign for … Continued
Fall 2022
Research on rare N.C. earthquake aids preparation, forecasting
Think of earthquakes, and images of cracked highways showing obvious fault lines come to mind. In the eastern U.S., those kinds of sights had not occurred until a 5.1 magnitude … Continued
Fall 2022
Area studies centers awarded $12 million in federal grants
UNC’s area studies centers will receive approximately $12 million in competitive federal Title VI funding over the next four years to support language and area studies coursework, global programming and … Continued
Fall 2022
Excavations reveal first known depictions of biblical heroines in Jewish art
A team of specialists and students led by Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor of religious studies, returned to Israel’s Lower Galilee last summer to continue unearthing nearly 1,600-year-old mosaics in … Continued
Fall 2022
Leading Blue Heaven
Senior Rachel McCarthy led UNC’s Air Force ROTC detachment as wing commander this fall, but her path to becoming the highest-ranking cadet in ‘Blue Heaven’ wasn’t a traditional one. Carolina … Continued
Fall 2022
Surveyor and storyteller
Anna Atencio was a member of the first Chancellor’s Science Scholars cohort. Now she helps tell the unseen story below the seafloor as a geophysicist on the coast of North … Continued
Fall 2022