Tag Archives: UNC-Chapel Hill

  • Carolina graduate Thompson Paine (far left) made sure all of the Silicon Valley Maymester students received T-shirts when they visited Quizlet, where he is the vice president for operations and business development.

    Access to innovators

    Alumni give students in Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship an immersive semester-long experience in Silicon Valley.

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  • A monumental dig

    A large-scale archaeological project on Crete has created an enduring collaboration, an experiential global learning opportunity for UNC students and…

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  • Water Over the Bridge

    A professor of American studies is helping port communities worldwide understand how rising sea levels and other impacts of climate…

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  • The old well covered in snow. Photo courtesy of Kayce Scinta.

    Carolina Quoted

    When national and international media need experts to comment on and analyze news and trends, they turn to Carolina.

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  • Steve Anderson stands at a whiteboard and explains some of the theory behind improvisation in jazz composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Santo Domingo.

    A love for Latin rhythm

    Music professor Stephen Anderson, a critically acclaimed composer and pianist, has a knack for finding Latin rhythms wherever he goes…

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  • Former Ph.D. student Katie Moga holds an adhesive patch embedded with microneedles which was deisgned to deliver medication painlessly. This is an example of multidisciplinary research known as convergent science.

    Convergent science gains momentum

    Rich Superfine, chair of the department of applied physical sciences, explains this next-generation approach to science and the new institute…

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  • Staff members Wallace Ambrose, Amar S. Kumbhar and Carrie Donley support the nanocomposites research of professors Theo Dingemans, Greg Forest and Peter Mucha —producing high-resolution images of carbon nanotubes embedded in crystalline polymer. They stand in front of equipment in the Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory.

    Science sized super-small

    UNC researchers converge to pool their talents, creating nanocomposites with extraordinary properties.

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  • Carolina alumna Zena Cardman stands on a tarmac holding her gear. She is a new NASA astronaut trainee. Over 18,000 people applied to be in the 2017 class; she was one of 12 selected.

    The 0.3 percent

    Carolina alumna Zena Cardman is a new NASA astronaut trainee. Over 18,000 people applied to be in the 2017 class;…

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  • From left, Maggie West, Mike Alston, Julius Alston and Hudson Vaughan in the Alston brothers’ home. The Community Empowerment Fund and the Jackson Center worked together to help the brothers settle into a duplex in the Northside neighborhood.

    Choosing lives of community advocacy

    An alumni couple help people transition out of homelessness and preserve historically black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill.

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  • Lowe and wife, Julia, with Jonathan and Drew Scott, hosts of “Property Brothers,” at an auction to benefit the American Heart Association.

    The man behind HGTV

    Carolina alumnus Ken Lowe built Scripps empire on DIY, food and travel — and a focus on core values.

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