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A UNC female student crouches to look at a small wild animal while working in the field.

Wild things make their hearts sing Spring 2023

While studying small mammals in the Blue Ridge Mountains, UNC-Chapel Hill juniors Marie Young and Cole Prezant discover a love for field work.


Collage: Top image: Students looks through a VR headset. Bottom image: Image of an Arabic landscape the student is seeing through the VR headset.

Tar Heels build language confidence with virtual reality Spring 2023

Tar Heels in Caroline Sibley’s Advanced Arabic class use virtual reality to explore a virtual world with students in Morocco and Algeria in real-time to hone their language skills.


An actor stands on the PlayMakers stage with the words "The Art of Acing the Accent" on the image.

The art of acing the accent Spring 2023

Hear how actors training with Carolina’s PlayMakers Repertory Company learn their characters’ dialects starting with the vowels and consonants and meet the UNC expert who fine-tunes their accents to create an authentic sound.


Waves crash against the shore at the beach.

The Wave Whisperer Fall 2022

Jana Haddad at the Institute of Marine Sciences is using physics to study how living shorelines affect ocean waves and could stem the tide of coastal erosion.


A photo of students on the beach in the Galapagos beside the text "Study Abroad in the Galapagos Islands"

Study abroad in the Galapagos Islands Fall 2022

Of all the international locations Tar Heels can visit as part of Carolina’s study abroad, the Galápagos Islands are one of the most unique. A group of Tar Heels studying abroad in the Galápagos Islands this summer had the chance to hike up volcanic craters, snorkel in the ocean, fly drones over the landscape, join a beach cleanup and learn about the unique islands.


Professor Brian Hogan sits in front of a whiteboard displaying the periodic table of elements.

A circuitous path Fall 2022

Brian Hogan’s journey to becoming a teaching professor in the College of Arts and Science’s chemistry department has been anything but a straight path. But through perseverance and an ask for help, the Tar Heel found a way to quiet the doubt that lingered in the back of his mind.


The words "Cherokee" are written in white on a blue patterned background.

The sanctity of Cherokee Spring 2022

As a result of systemic oppression, there are fewer than 200 native Cherokee speakers in North Carolina. To keep the language alive and pass it to the next generation, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher and Eastern Band Cherokeean citizen Benjamin Frey has teamed up with computer scientists Mohit Bansal and Shiyue Zhang to create a new translation model and grow the literary library of works available in Cherokee.


In this screenshot, undergraduate students do research in the water. One stands in the water making measurements, two are on shore.

A classroom on the Core Sound Spring 2022

More than a dozen Tar Heels spent last semester on the coast taking classes and conducting real-world research on a new issue impacting the barrier islands of the Cape Lookout National Seashore.


In this screenshot, Professor Juan Alamo stands at the Old Well.

Where words fail, music speaks Spring 2022

For most of his life, Juan Álamo has used music to connect to and communicate with others. As a skilled marimba player, he uses his talent and passion to teach the next generation of musicians to do the same.


A cartoon figure of Charles Darwin is shown looking at a globe in this screen capture from the animated Galapagos video.

Learn about UNC’s Galapagos Initiative Fall 2021

Learn about how UNC and USFQ partnered to create the Galapagos Science Center in San Cristobal, Galapagos, in this animated film. Here, researchers study the connection between humans and the environment in Darwin’s living laboratory.


A beaver swims through the water in the screen capture for this video.

Leave it to Beavers Fall 2021

As urban regions in the Southeast continue to grow and develop, harmful pollutants enter nearby waterways more frequently. UNC researchers think one of the best solutions to prevent this may be investments in the habitats of the furry neighbors already in our backyards: beavers.


Photo of a female researcher flying a drone with her back to the camera.

Carolina’s drone lab takes off Fall 2021

Recently launched to provide a hub for innovative drone and sensing technologies at Carolina, CARDNL serves as a collaborative resource for faculty and student researchers to use for a host of research endeavors.


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History and place in Chapel Hill and Legendborn Spring 2021

Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn brings Arthurian legends and magic to UNC-Chapel Hill. On a recent Southern Futures podcast, Deonn talks about incorporating the landmarks and the history of the campus, including the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Read more in Chapter & Verse.


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Building resilience for storm-battered N.C. Spring 2021

The record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season included 30 storms, and while North Carolina managed to dodge the 12 hurricanes that made landfall, that won’t always be the case in the future. A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UNC is combining their expertise in areas like human health, ecology, and urban planning to create a long-term holistic plan helping vulnerable communities prepare for the next generation of extreme weather events.


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“My Trip to Japan” by Michael Sparks Spring 2021

Michael Sparks’ film catalogs his journey through Japan from Tokyo, Sapporo, and Osaka to the top of Mount Fuji.