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Last updated at 2:54pmMonday, May 13th, 2019

Celebrating 225 years of Carolina

This year, as the University recognized a significant milestone, we celebrated our mission and embraced our future.

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Sea turtle secrets
How do sea turtles navigate using Earth’s magnetic fields? To shed light on this incredible ability, doctoral student Kayla Goforth observes the orientation of their eggs — often in the middle of the night.
Well Said: Sounds of Commencement
The newest Tar Heel alumni tossed their caps into the sky at Spring Commencement this past weekend. On this episode of Well Said, we recap the excitement.
Spring Commencement: ‘What are you uniquely wired to do?’
“Godspeed, Class of 2019, and go Heels.” – Jonathan Reckford, 1984 Carolina alumnus and CEO of Habitat for Humanity

Discover UNC-Chapel Hill

Line of apples on wooden deck

Savoring Southern apples

Digital research projects in a senior seminar in Southern Studies illuminate the history, stories, locations and culture of Southern apples. Students at UNC-Chapel Hill are the first to explore a new collection of papers on Southern apples in Wilson Library.

News and Updates

- Women’s lacrosse runs past Virginia to NCAA Final Four
  Carolina will be making its eighth appearance in the NCAA Final Four in the last 11 years.
- Carolina men’s and women’s tennis teams are heading to the Final Four
  This marks the first time a program has placed both a men's and women's team in the Final Four since Cal in 2016.
- BeAM opens new Learning and Innovation Studio
- Carolina Blood Drive scheduled for June 4
- Message from Provost Blouin on vice provost for digital and lifelong learning
  The new position will guide the establishment of the University’s vision and unified strategy for a future-directed, sustainable digital learning institutional environment.
- Hong-An Truong awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Carolina Performing Arts announces 15th anniversary season

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Spring Commencement

The degrees of more than 6,000 Carolina students were conferred this weekend. They included 3,944 with bachelor’s, 1,244 with master’s, 258 with doctoral and 588 with professional degrees from the schools of dentistry, law, medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

Carolina on Social Media

- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  This past school year, as the nation's oldest public university recognized a significant milestone, we celebrated our mission and embraced our future. See what's in store for the next 225 years at Carolina #UNC225
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The Class of 2019 has officially been a part of the Carolina alumni family for one week. Look back on this year's #UNCgrad ceremonies ⬇️
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  In the middle of the night at Bald Head Island, #UNC PhD student Kayla Goforth and her research assistants are just getting to work. Uncover their meticulous efforts to study the orientation of loggerhead sea turtle embryos in the hopes of understanding how they use the Earth's m...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  This week, we celebrated the 6,000+ Tar Heels who graduated last weekend and saw the lengths Carolina researchers will go to study sea turtles. Take a look: https://unc.live/2HwJVxE
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Calvin is late to the #UNCgrad party, but we think he's still deserving of a dogtorate degree #BarkTheSound 📸: woofwoofcalvin on IG
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  How do sea turtles navigate using Earth’s magnetic fields? To shed light on this incredible ability, #UNC PhD student Kayla Goforth observes the orientation of their eggs — often in the middle of the night.
- @UNC
  It's no secret to scientists that sea turtles use the Earth's magnetic fields to navigate, but how it's done is still a mystery. #UNC researchers study loggerhead sea turtle embryos in the search for answers: https://t.co/r1FbHl9CJ9 https://t.co/befToHCNRn
- @UNC
  What a remarkable season it was. Well done, Tar Heels 💙 #GoHeels https://t.co/9k5JRzB9wX
- @UNC
  Chemistry major and third-year student Andrew Pendergast is #UNC's 48th Goldwater Scholar! Discover how this prestigious award will support his scientific pursuits in electrochemistry ⬇️ https://t.co/WoAh0TMPtf
- @UNC
  Summer is coming! Before you buckle in for the series finale of #GameOfThrones, look back on the past week as we celebrated all things #UNCgrad ⚡️ “This week's top moments at #UNC | May 12-18” https://t.co/LNHAB7oImY
- @UNC
  No event at #UNC is too large for Kimberly Pack McCullen and the rest of the @MoveUNC team to handle. Learn how she delivers a personal touch to parking operations 🚗 (via @univgazette) https://t.co/woKlyakiAZ
- @UNC
  Here we go, Tar Heels, here we go! 👏👏 #GoHeels https://t.co/ns2bmZlV11

Events

May 06
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Sep 10
Health Insurance is Mandatory!
Campus Health Services320 Emergency Room DriveChapel HillNC27599 |
Lear more about waiving or enrolling in the UNC System Student Health Insurance Plan
May 20
UNC Visitors Center tours
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
UNC-Chapel Hill Visitors Center250 East Franklin StreetChapel HillNC27514 | Free
The UNC Visitors Center welcomes guests to tour our dynamic campus. Whether you’re interested in prospective undergraduate tours – provided by our Office of Undergraduate Admissions – or you’d just like to get to know us better, we invite you to walk our storied brick paths and between our stone walls.
May 21
UNC Visitors Center tours
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
UNC-Chapel Hill Visitors Center250 East Franklin StreetChapel HillNC27514 | Free
The UNC Visitors Center welcomes guests to tour our dynamic campus. Whether you’re interested in prospective undergraduate tours – provided by our Office of Undergraduate Admissions – or you’d just like to get to know us better, we invite you to walk our storied brick paths and between our stone walls.