Tar Heels get their hands dirty at archaeology field site
Carolina rising senior Mary Kate Mauney helped piece together the past while working at the archaeology field school this summer.
Internships and experiential learning
Experiential learning is a crucial aspect of a Carolina education. Whether students are participating in internships or in on-campus classes, the hands-on experiences they get provide them with new knowledge in their chosen fields
Over the summer, aspiring archaeologists, teachers, medical researchers, innovators and others participated in experiential learning opportunities across the country.
I always want to know, as in-depth as possible, what I’m getting myself into. I see the summer as the time to be able to really focus on learning more about what I see myself doing in the future. The opportunities that they’re providing are really crucial.
Varun Potlapalli, a rising senior in the School of Medicine’s MD-Ph.D. summer experience program
I’ve read all about the archaeology. I’ve taken a lot of archaeology classes. But here, just pulling something out of that dirt, it feels like mining for gold, honestly, even though it’s basically a rock. But it’s really something more than that.
Maria Reid, a recent graduate who participated in the archaeology summer field school
Tar Heel summer experiences
A summer in the Puma performance lab
Jordan Feldman has always been a big sports fan, but she never thought she’d be the one analyzing the shoes athletes wear to help them compete at their best. As an intern with Puma’s Footwear Innovation team, the Carolina senior is doing just that this summer.
Led by her passions
A scholarship to the Honors Carolina program and a teaching internship helped Kaylee Burrell affirm that she was following the right path into education.