July 2023 News

The road to an award-winning Wagyu beef sandwich ends in Chapel Hill. Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop opened in May on East Franklin Street after retrofitting the space formerly occupied by Waffle House and, even earlier, the legendary Pepper’s… read more

Professors are worried less about students using AI to cheat and more about how it should be used. By Mark Derewicz (a real human) A flawed, sarcastic human spent time talking to smarter humans and contextualizing facts and… read more

Carolina just happens to have a few good teams in a sport you may have never heard of. by Mark Derewicz The ball sails over the goal, booming off a wall in Fetzer Gym. Six men scurry back on defense, while six players on the opposing team… read more

Two feature stories and a timeline concerning the tulip poplar that witnessed the birth of America’s first public university stories by Paul Wachter A Turn for the Better When… read more

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz on July 19 apologized to UNC Board of Governors members for failing to notify them before he publicly announced plans to offer free tuition to students who meet certain income criteria. Some board members sharply… read more

Blair LM Kelley, the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, is the new director of the Center for the Study of the American South. Kelley began her role July 1 at CSAS, which studies Southern culture to emphasize the… read more

UNC, in partnership with Duke University, has been awarded up to $50 million from the Food and Drug Administration to establish a center that will work with FDA scientists to conduct research that will better inform and support the agency’s… read more

A team led by UNC professor Jodi Magness uncovered mosaic panels depicting episodes of the biblical prophet Samson as well as Noah’s Ark in a late Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s lower Galilee. Magness,… read more

Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action could no longer be used in university admissions, UNC is taking steps to expand student access. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz stated in an announcement on July 7 that Carolina will… read more