Inspired by memories in and beyond the classroom, a group of alumni work to honor the late professor Kimball King.

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.”

In the “Silicon Revolution” Maymester course, undergraduate students with a passion for entrepreneurship learn from Carolina alumni who have made their mark in the Bay Area.

Tar Heels who travel the globe, are you willing to share your adventures? Follow @unccollege, @uncstudyabroad and @uncglobal on Instagram and use #HeelsAbroad to share your photos.

UNC’s seismic shift in global education. (Senior Cassidy Greshko in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Photo by Jackson Hitchner ’18)

I didn’t study abroad as an undergraduate, but I am fortunate that my research, teaching and personal travel have taken me across the globe in the decades since.

UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 19th among all U.S. higher education institutions for the number of students earning credit for study abroad, according to the Institute of International Education’s 2016 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.