An introduction to sign language
A new course on American Sign Language taught students the principles of the language and basic conversational strategies.
Research and Innovation
Topple a paradigm. Uncover the Unknown. Tar Heels ask questions, develop answers, create solutions and discover cures.
Well Said: Fighting for women in math
On this week's episode of Well Said, doctoral student Katrina Morgan discusses founding the Girls Talk Math summer camp and explains how the program has been giving local high school girls a new outlook on mathematics.
New Carolina research center to address 21st century questions on digital information
With $5 million in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Carolina will establish the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life.
Tar Heels in the field
Experiential learning is an important way for students to gain hands-on experience in their chosen fields. This summer, budding musicians, environmental researchers, public servants, journalists and more are jumping headfirst into internships and programs.
A father for social science
The Odum Institute, the first social science research center in the world, has trained and supported hundreds of researchers specializing in everything from anthropology to city and regional planning to public health for the past 95 years. And it all exists thanks to the determination of one eccentric man.
One Giant Leap
From training the country's earliest astronauts to uncovering new knowledge about the universe, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has played pivotal roles in space exploration and discovery.
Could we make a Carolina blue spacecraft?
Assistant professor Andrew Mann is building small satellites in campus makerspaces to discover young planets that could one day sustain life.
‘Walking in the footsteps of men who walked on the moon’
Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center played a pivotal role in American space exploration and discovery, including helping put a man on the moon.