In addition to our Chapter & Verse feature poem, enjoy more books by faculty and alumni in the spring 2024 issue.

Scott Nurkin celebrates North Carolina’s contributions to the American songbook by painting murals of legendary musicians in their hometowns.

The new Weldon Thornton Memorial Teaching Award and Society will affirm the central place of the humanities in the arts and sciences tradition that has long defined a Carolina education.

UNC senior and Phillips Ambassador Xenia Weakly documents her transformative semester in Japan. She learned through her study abroad experience that it is “all the more essential for us to learn about those who are different from ourselves.”

Dean Jim White shares news about new leaders and areas of study in his letter from the dean in the spring 2024 issue.

Fans love the bestselling YA author’s novels and TV shows. Do they know her heart bleeds Carolina blue?

Organic chemist Sidney Wilkerson-Hill is using a Sloan Research Fellowship to develop new small-molecule pesticides to combat mosquitoes that cause malaria.

Alexandrea Ravenelle’s latest book explores how COVID-19 affected the most vulnerable wage-earners.

Victoria Wlosok signed a book deal for her young adult thriller with a “big five” publisher when she was still a first-year student. On Sept. 19, her work hit the shelves. 

In a new book spanning 200 years of history, award-winning scholar Blair L.M. Kelley shines a spotlight on the often-overlooked contributions of everyday Black workers through the lens of her own family’s story.