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A taste of college life

For five decades, Project Uplift has given rising high school seniors from underrepresented backgrounds a preview of the college experience.

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Celebrating five decades of Project Uplift
From SAT/ACT prep and academic explorations to Franklin Street tours and a culture show, Project Uplift gives high school students a complete 360-degree view of life as a college student.
Nancy Burton’s story includes support taken and given
Nancy Burton began as a third-shift housekeeper at the University and worked her way up to receptionist and administrative support specialist for Housekeeping Services. Now she's being rewarded for her distinguished service.
Well Said: Detecting early markers for autism
On this week’s episode of Well Said, assistant professor Mark Shen tells us why he’s on a mission to discover biological markers for autism.

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Doggett in front of a white pagoda in Myanmar

The pursuit of passion

Project Uplift led Taylor Doggett to Carolina, where she found the opportunity to study media and journalism in Hong Kong and experience new cultures and learning environments.

News and Updates

- Message from Provost Blouin on vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer
  Ambassador Barbara Stephenson will lead UNC Global and advance a pan-university global strategy to enhance UNC-Chapel Hill’s international reach, impact and reputation.
- Scientists discover a powerful antibody that inhibits multiple strains of norovirus
  This breakthrough brings researchers closer than ever to a norovirus vaccine.
- UNC-Chapel Hill hosts third annual Royster Global Conference
- UNC School of Law receives largest single cash gift in school’s history
- Creativity Hubs Awards accelerate solutions to societal challenges
  This year’s winners of the Creativity Hubs awards were selected from 23 proposals, involving 207 UNC-Chapel Hill researchers representing 46 departments across 11 schools and the College of Arts & Sciences.
- UNC-Chapel Hill to co-lead $9.5 million effort to detect autism earlier
- Carolina announces newly selected members of the Board of Visitors

In Pictures

Carolina in the summer

Summer in Chapel Hill may be a bit quieter — and hotter — than the rest of the year, but with Summer School in session and thousands of incoming first-year students visiting campus, there is still excitement flowing through Carolina.

Carolina on Social Media

- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  This recent discovery by researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and their colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) could be a major step forward in the development of an effective vaccine for the dreaded s...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  From SAT/ACT prep and academic explorations to Franklin Street tours and a culture show, UNC Project Uplift gives high school students a complete 360-degree view of life as a college student. See the difference it has made in the lives of underrepresented students for 50 years: h...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  As an associate professor at the UNC School of Media and Journalism, Deen Freelon researches how social media influences political opinions. Hear what his analysis of tens of millions of tweets can tell us about how those opinions are expressed online: https://unc.live/2KWEawv
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  For five decades, UNC Project Uplift has given students from underrepresented backgrounds a taste of life at Carolina. Discover how this two-day immersive experience fulfills the University's mission to be "of the public, for the public."
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  We love ewe so much, dad. Happy Father's Day! 🐏💙
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Tar Heel fans traveled all the way to the FIFA Women's World Cup to cheer on #USWNT and the team's five Carolina alumnae. Good luck in today's match #USA, and #GoHeels! 📸: TarheelPhan on Twitter and artiethemermaid on IG
- @UNC
  A program sponsored by @UNCDiversity gives rising high school seniors from our state and around the nation the opportunity to experience life at Carolina. Discover the @Project_Uplift difference 👇🏽 https://t.co/Q7Lb96XyCP
- @UNC
  Message from Provost Blouin on vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer https://t.co/5Z3TmsOpRn
- @UNC
  N.C. native and former @Panthers co-owner Jerry Wordsworth is saying "thank you" to @unc_law by making the largest single cash gift in the school’s history! See how this will enable the school to pursue new opportunities https://t.co/41ihRZb0XF
- @UNC
  RT @KevinGuskiewicz: Please join me in welcoming Ambassador Barbara Stephenson as our new Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global…
- @UNC
  Science rules! 🧪 Researchers at @uncpublichealth, @UTAustin and @NIH discovered an antibody that broadly inhibits multiple strains of norovirus. Find out what this means for the possibility of a vaccine ⤵️ https://t.co/3duqPk67kV
- @UNC
  RT @UNCFacServ: Grounds Services is installing permanent sod around the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower for the final phase of a landscape im…

Events

Jun 17
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Jun 20
N.C. Scholastic Media Institute 2019
Carroll Hall211 South Columbia StreetChapel Hill27599 | $250
The North Carolina Scholastic Media Association will host this four-day Summer Institute, which welcomes hundreds of high school journalism students and their teachers each year. Courses include newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine, online news, photojournalism, design, broadcast news and advising student media.
Jun 19
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.
Jun 20
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Jun 23
Jane Austen Summer Program: “Pride and Prejudice and its Afterlives”
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Various locations |
The Jane Austen Summer Program is delighted to announce its seventh annual symposium, “Pride and Prejudice and Its Afterlives."