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  • Student pose for a photo by cacti

    Celebrating Carolina Firsts

    Among Carolina's lauded first-generation student programs is a study abroad fellowship that sends students to the U.S.-Mexico border to examine the concept of “borderlands” as it relates to their own first-generation identities.

  • Erin Hager holds an alpaca in Chile.

    Well Said: Growing from study abroad experiences

    On this week’s podcast, Carolina senior Erin Hager invites us on her study abroad experience to Santiago, Chile, where she studied in the fall of 2018.

  • A lake in Nepal.

    New revelations in Nepal

    An interdisciplinary team of Carolina researchers recently returned to the Himalayas to continue studying the effects of climate change on Buddhist holy lakes. A major goal: To retrieve data from instruments they installed 15 months ago.

  • Sakari Singleton

    #GDTBATH: Sakari Singleton

    While studying abroad in Spain last semester, Sakari Singleton built relationships with the local community and with other international students, learning how to connect with strangers through a language that she’s grown to love.

  • Mike Levine

    Cuba’s USB-driven music scene

    A doctoral candidate in the College of Arts & Sciences' music department, Mike Levine studies the Cuban music scene and how artists distribute their music through something called “the sneakernet,” Cuba’s grassroots alternative to the internet.

  • Four women dig a hole with their hands.

    Learning from businesses around the world

    UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School's Global Immersion Electives help students interact with leaders of companies and organizations in different parts of the world, and participate in cultural and community experiences.

  • Students work in a marsh.

    Climate game-changers

    For thousands of years, the northern Andes Mountains have acted as a carbon sink, preserving organic matter as thick soil. As the planet warms, what will happen to all that carbon? This past summer, Carolina undergraduates traveled to Ecuador to take a closer look.

  • Dolan and a young boy read a book

    Bringing the world to North Carolina classrooms

    UNC World View is a public service program that provides global professional development opportunities to educators throughout the state.