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Senior Alaina Plauche has heeded her own advice to future Tar Heels about studying abroad. This Carolina Covenant Scholar never could have imagined that her academic journey would take her to Bhutan, Spain, Uganda and Washington, D.C.
Carolina senior Lucas Risinger is among the three Tar Heels studying at Kyrgyzstan's American University of Central Asia this year as part of the UNC Russian Flagship Program.
Marie Yovanovitch’s talk about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and challenges women face in the foreign service was a key event in Carolina’s first Diplomacy Week.
Carolina’s Study Abroad Office adapted its programming during the pandemic, creating new global learning opportunities for students at home while helping others travel internationally safely.
Sartaj Jhooty spent last semester studying at the University of Granada as part of the Carolina Global Launch program, which enables first-year students to spend their fall semester abroad before joining the Carolina community on campus the following spring semester.
For more than 10 years, the UNC Center for Galápagos Studies has been a hub of collaborative research activity spanning many disciplines, with the potential to impact the globe. Diego Riveros-Iregui and Amanda Thompson, the center’s new interim co-directors, strive to use their own experiences from the islands to expand its reach and grow its reputation as a world-renowned research institution.
Carolina alumnus Jake Mendys ’16 uses basketball and business to change lives from Rwanda to the NBA.
Will Larsen's love of science and the outdoors — combined with initiative and perseverance — led the Tar Heel to the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies and fieldwork on the remote islands.