Senior researches cicadas’ impact on local food web
With a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Alexander Smith studied how the bugs affected animal feeding habits.
Summer experiences
at Carolina
At Carolina, we strive to give students the knowledge, resources and confidence to succeed beyond campus. Summer is a great time for Tar Heels to take lessons learned in the classroom and apply them in professional settings, picking up valuable experience for their careers ahead.
As the fall semester begins, find out what some Carolina students were up to this summer.
As part of Rachel Geyer’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, she tried understanding why some corals grow more complex skeletons, possibly making the coral more resilient. She hopes her findings may help tropical coral species threatened by rapidly warming waters and excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
At the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association’s annual summer institute, high school students from across North Carolina participate in a weekend-long deep dive into all things media.
Read more about how Carolina gives aspiring journalists their time to shine.
Launch Chapel Hill’s award-winning startup accelerator’s summer session is specifically geared to help Carolina student entrepreneurs. This year, for the first time, the summer cohort also took a little trip: a short walk down Franklin and Rosemary streets to meet Tar Heel and Launch alumni who opened their ventures downtown.
Read more about the businesses and entrepreneurs they encountered.
Students explore the Beat Lab all year as a community space where musicians can use a wide variety of DJ gear, electronic music tools and digital resources to practice, create and collaborate in making music. In late May, the lab partnered with UNC Summer School to host the Carolina Hip Hop Institute. The course allows students to engage in discussions about the creation of music and even participate in jam sessions with fellow students and teachers.
Read more about the Carolina Hip Hop Institute and Carolina’s Beat Lab.
Opportunities on and beyond campus
Journalism school sends students to Paris Olympics
Professor Charlie Tuggle talks about the school’s 16-year partnership with the International Olympic Committee.
Six students take the Bridge Beyond Carolina
The new internship program expands professional opportunities for graduate students.
