These are stories that define Carolina. Stories of novel ideas and nimble minds. Wide-open spaces of belonging and collaboration. A look and a leap toward the future, at home and across the globe.
With an estimated 400 million people expected to watch competitions this year, esports is making waves in the sports world. On this week’s episode, a former Carolina student shares his experiences as a professional esports player and coach.
Teaching associate professor Kate Sheppard at the UNC School of Media and Journalism is working with students in the school’s Reese News Lab to rebuild journalism and reshape its future.
Each year, the Workie Awards recognize some of the best, most interesting and most distinctive work-study jobs at Carolina.
The academy announced the election of its 2019 fellows on April 17. This year, more than 200 individuals with compelling achievements in academia, business, government and public affairs were recognized.
After earning a master’s in public health and a doctorate in epidemiology from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Bill Jenkins went on to become an advocate for minority health and a campaigner for social justice.
The Wilson Special Collections Library is filled with wonders. These rare, memorable and sometimes bizarre objects span millennia. They originate from across the globe, telling stories of courage, romance and humor. Now, some of the biggest, oldest, rarest and most remarkable objects are on view for all to experience,
Fifty years after one of the longest labor actions in University history, a new exhibition at the Wilson Special Collections Library looks back at this tumultuous moment of campus life. It uses photographs, news articles and administrative documents to capture this period of campus protest that pitted workers and their allies against the University’s administration and state officials.
An exhibition of photographs in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of Wilson Library provides a look at African-American life and culture in a small Mississippi town during the 1970s. Cheryl Thurber is an interdisciplinary scholar, cultural historian, folklorist and photographer whose images have been published in the New York Times and Rolling Stone, as well as in numerous music and folklore publications. During the 1970s and 1980s she traveled through the South and California, taking photographs and documenting local life.
