"So thank you, Beirut, Mumford and Sons, and fun. Thank you, Daniel Caesar and Taylor Swift. Your music lets me hang out with people hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles away. It reminds me not to be a stranger with the people who have had such an impact on my life."
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professor emeritus Michael Hoefges died on March 9, 2021. Colleagues and students remember him for being passionate about his students and the media law dual degree program he helped create at the University.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Transcript Evely Forte: I’m Evely Forte from the Daily Tar Heel, and this is Heel Talk. The UNC Men’s Basketball team beat Duke on March 6th at the Dean E. Smith Center — with fans cheering on the Tar Heels in person for the second time this basketball season. Today, ...
“There wasn’t really a space for Black entrepreneurs here on campus,” Crum said. “So I just decided one day that I wanted to create that space.”
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center will host author, journalist and activist Charles E. Cobb as its African American History Month lecturer. Cobb plans to discuss his experience with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights movement and shed light on its relevance to modern civil rights work.
Students aim to get the University to sign a pledge, committing UNC to establishing a task force which would work to employ reusable alternatives.
Just over 8,000 students received acceptance letters to UNC for the first of the class of 2025.
At its Jan. 21 and 22 meetings, the UNC Board of Governors discussed budget and safety concerns, appointments to vacant positions and the future of North Carolina higher education.
On this special episode for the first day of UNC classes, host Evely Forte chats with University Desk reporters Heidi Perez-Moreno and Rachel Crumpler about what re-entry for students will look like this spring semester. They also talk about the University’s new COVID-testing program and technology being used for its implementation. Sports editor Jared McMasters previews the spring season for UNC sports teams.
“I find myself adopting new perspectives and problem-solving strategies,” Ritika Desai said about her favorite class from the fall semester, Biology 202: Molecular Biology and Genetics.
In the final episode of this season, we talk about the results from the election. Thank you for listening to Before You Vote this year. This episode was produced by Will Christensen.
In this episode, City & State Assistant Editors Samuel Long and Ethan Horton talk to reporters Maggie McIntyre and Lucy Marques about accessibility barriers to voting as well as campaign spending. Election Day is less than a week away and early voting ends on Nov. 5. Go vote! This episode was produced by Audio Editor Will Christensen.
University Editor Liv Reilly and Audio Editor Will Christensen talk about staff shortages in the local public school and transit systems, and Liv interviews the new Dean of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Raul Reis.
Editor-in-Chief Guillermo Molero and Audio Editor Will Christensen talk to Liv Reilly, Emmy Martin, and Sarah Choi about UNC's settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones, a court ruling that restricts abortions after 20 weeks in North Carolina, and a surge in Monkeypox cases nationwide.
Daily Tar Heel Audio Editor Will Christensen sits down with the hosts of the DTH's upcoming podcasts to talk about what to expect, and when to expect it.
The UNC System President Peter Hans speaks at a meeting of the Board of Governors on Jan. 21, 2021. The BOG met to discuss safety concerns and vacant board positions.
The UNC Faculty Executive Committee met with Provost Bob Blouin and pharmacy professor Tim Ives on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 over Zoom.
Professor and statistical epidemiology specialist Christl Donnelly detailed her experiences tracking COVID-19 to students enrolled in the Carolina Away program and the public on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 over Zoom. Donnelly is the deputy head of the department of statistics at Oxford University and a specialist in statistical epidemiology at Imperial College London.
