Guided by a faculty leader, a public policy capstone team provided advice about strengthening N.C. communities’ disaster response efforts.

Alumnus Don Baer has been involved with the UNC public policy internship program for the past three years, sharing career advice and Chapel Hill anecdotes with the students.

For 15 weeks every spring, students in the UNC Honors Seminar on Public Policy and Global Affairs in Washington, D.C. spend four days a week at prestigious internships in the city’s corridors of power.

UNC public policy professor Ashu Handa learned an early lesson about poverty that inspires his research and field work around the world.

Daniel Gitterman, associate professor of public policy, was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of the state’s highest honors.