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UNC research teams awarded $170 million in grant funding

By Eileen Foster | February 23

Two professors from the Gillings School of Global Public Health will lead the research, which aims to introduce a way to form a genetic profile of an ...

UNC Outdoor Education Center debuts new trails on campus

By Collin Tadlock | February 22

The new trails are part of a three-phase plan that began in the fall of 2019 and will span about 4 miles total after completion.

UNC researchers developing process to create stronger plastic material

By Lauren Lovitt | February 22

The researchers from the Leibfarth and Alexanian groups hope their project will contribute to a more functional and sustainable future for plastic use. ...

UNC SILS researchers aim to create more equitable makerspaces

By Natalie McCormick | February 22

The UNC Equity in the Making Lab is working to make makerspaces an equitable environment for students in historically underrepresented communities. Maggie ...

Carolina Jump Rope Club offers competition and community

By Celia Funderburk | February 22

Out of the last three annual National Collegiate Jump Rope Association Summit competitions, UNC's Carolina Jump Rope Club notched consecutive wins in ...

'I love this team': Bhangra Elite wins first place at South Asian dance competition

By Valeria Cloës | February 21

Bhangra Elite, a South Asian dance group at UNC, won first place on Feb. 12 at the East Coast Showdown — the team's first in-person competition in ...

'Talk pop-up books': UNC SILS library holds a collection of over 1,700 and counting

By Annie Ham | February 21

Located on the first floor of Manning Hall, the UNC School of Information and Library Science Library houses a collection of titles accessible to the ...

Chancellor's committee meets to draft building renaming report for Board of Trustees

By Brooke Elliott | February 21

Last Thursday, the Chancellor’s Committee to Review History Commission Resolution reviewed and revised a committee report to evaluate the criteria for ...

Community reflects on UNC history in "Race and Memory" discussion event

By Madi Kirkman | February 21

Associate History Professor William Sturkey and civil rights activist and historian Danita Mason-Hogans led the “Race and Memory at UNC” discussion ...

'Our stories being told by us': CLC and University Libraries launch book collection

By Zoe Frederick | February 20

From poetry to nonfiction and everything in between, the new AfroLatinx Authors & Stories book collection offers stories from a variety of authors ...

Student sustainability group working to build solar panel resources on campus buildings

By Alan Hunt | February 20

Morrison is the only dormitory to have solar panel installations, as well as real-time energy consumption monitors. But the Renewable Energy Special ...

UNC GPSG President-elect Theodore Nollert wants to build graduate student community

By Layna Hong | February 17

Theodore Nollert, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, will be the next president of the Graduate and ...

UNC Faculty Executive, Advisory committees propose faculty governance changes

By Liv Reilly | February 16

Members of the UNC Faculty Executive Committee and Advisory Committee convened for a joint meeting on Monday. They discussed potential term and responsibility ...

Theodore Nollert elected as Graduate and Professional student body president

By Allie Kelly | February 16

Theodore Nollert has been elected as Graduate and Professional Student Government student body president with 59.14 percent of the total votes cast — ...

Meet Li-ling Hsiao, UNC associate professor in Asian and Middle Eastern studies

By Aisha Baiocchi | February 15

Li-ling Hsiao, associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and associate dean for First-Year Curricula, teaches classes ...

Diversity committee discusses department hiring, faculty mentoring resources

By Brianna Atkinson | February 15

At its Feb. 14 meeting, the Committee on Community and Diversity met to discuss results from UNCu2019s 2018 Collaborative On Academic Careers in Higher ...

Ackland Art Museum hosts global cult cinema film forum at the Varsity Theatre

By Hadley Chapman | February 15

The Ackland Art Museum is hosting a global cult cinema-themed Film Forum at the Varsity Theatre this month. Films include “The Man Who Saved the World," ...

Meet the candidates for UNC Graduate and Professional Student Government president

By Natalie Varma | February 15

Two candidates are running to be the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government: Theodore Nollert and Zachary Boyce. The election is ...

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Proposed renaming of UNC's Hamilton Hall after Pauli Murray still in progress

By Madi Kirkman | February 15

In July 2020, the chairpersons of the history, sociology, political science and peace, war & defense departments all signed a letter to the Chancellor ...

Sharmila Udyavar named associate director of global education at UNC

By Abby Pender | February 14

“I am extremely passionate about the need for every student to get a global experience,” Sharmila Udyavar, UNC's new associate director of global ...