UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has launched an experimental multimedia news Web site that explores U.S. energy use and its relationship to the country’s demographics. “Powering a Nation” is Carolina’s contribution to the News21… read more
A Carolina-born program has received an award of up to $8.5 million over five years to help bring clean drinking water and improved sanitation and hygiene to people in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The funding, from the U.S. Agency for… read more
Researchers at UNC have launched a center that will bring together scholars and technical experts to solve the problems of managing and sharing today’s deluge of digital data. In addition to building shared collections, the new Data Intensive… read more
UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has launched an online program to provide non-business majors the business knowledge, skills and confidence to differentiate themselves in the increasingly competitive job market. The UNC Business Essentials… read more
Mark Crowell ’76, who has led economic development and technology transfer efforts at Carolina for the past eight and a half years, has been appointed vice president for business and technology development at the Scripps Research Institute. He will… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has launched a new blog – holden.unc.edu – and is using it to share insights and images from his current tour of North Carolina. Thorp began posting his impressions on Monday from a visit to Tom Herndon’s authentic… read more
UNC’s School of Government and Appalachian State University in Boone have created the N.C. Local Government Service Corps, a three-year initiative to assist economically distressed communities in the state. The pilot phase of the corps will… read more
A curriculum designed to recruit, educate and retain college students from nontraditional backgrounds in the study of botany has been created at Carolina. The curriculum, BOT 2.0, offers online and in-person training that weave together four key… read more
For Joseph M. DeSimone, the interface between seemingly disparate fields and concepts offers the best opportunity for invention and innovation. A well-recognized chemist and polymer expert, DeSimone has applied his skills to the development of… read more
ABC News has selected UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication as home to a new, student-staffed digital bureau. ABC News on Campus is a partnership serving to educate and mentor talented college students of five top U.S. journalism… read more