Student traveler inspires staff member to get on board
At universities, students are often inspired to make leaps of faith.
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Beating the odds: C-STEP helps student to degree, law school
Roy Dawson, who turns 30 on April 28, was always incredibly bright, but the odds were stacked against him when it came to college.
UNC celebrates Earth Day year round
To celebrate Earth Day, we’re recycling some of UNC’s most important sustainability stories over the past year. If you missed them the first time around, check out the ways the Carolina community is dedicated to a greener future.
1,000 days, 2 million books read, 150 countries
In 150 countries around the world, people are learning to read because of the ideas of two UNC professors.
Aerotropolis: A world-changing idea
An "aerotropolis" is what John D. Kasarda calls a city built around an airport instead of the other way around.
Crisis mode: UNC experts on Japan, future disasters, page 2
Page 2 Preparing for worse than the worst case Dalton Sawyer, director of emergency preparedness and continuity planning for UNC Health Care, is monitoring how officials in Japan coordinate response and recovery efforts. One disaster is challenge enough. But Sawyer’s Japanese counterparts are dealing with the triple whammy of a massive earthquake, a deadly tsunami…
Crisis mode: UNC experts on Japan, future disasters
As Japan struggles in the wake of the recent massive earthquake and tsunami, the scale and extent of the challenges that emerge after natural disasters is all too obvious.
Carolina gets social
It was a traditional assignment in Joe Bob Hester’s copywriting class.
Hogwash? More power, less pollution with pig waste
The faint logo of a rodeo clown graces a utility trailer that sits on Tom Butler’s hog farm in Harnett County, N.C.
