Six undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for study abroad programs in Asia in 2020. Two scholarship recipients will study in Singapore, two in Taiwan, one in South Korea and … Read more
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. Editor’s note: Read about … Read more
In celebration of International Education Week, the UNC-Duke area studies centers (UNC African Studies Center, UNC Carolina Asia Center, UNC Center for European Studies, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, and the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) … Read more
The UNC Modern Indian Studies Initiative hosted its inaugural conference, “Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power,” on October 10-11, 2019. His Excellency Harsh Vardhan Shringla, ambassador of India to the United States, gave the opening lecture … Read more
Developing global knowledge and skills through experiential learning is a hallmark of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. In the full-time MBA Program, Global Immersion Electives are vital to understanding how business is conducted around the world. These faculty-led courses develop intercultural competencies: empathy and … Read more
Barbara Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was invited to join the American Academy of Diplomacy. Members of the academy, all of whom are former senior diplomats … Read more
The African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host Africa Week from Nov. 14 -18, 2019. Spread across two weeks, programming will include an art exhibition, film screenings, musical performances, lectures and a panel … Read more
North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and award-winning ceramic artist Judith Ernst spoke about their collaborative art piece, Flowing Beneath the Center, at an opening reception on Oct. 9, 2019, in the Florence and James Peacock Atrium of the FedEx … Read more
Doctor Sameer Arora, a UNC School of Medicine cardiology fellow, is leading a study reviewing hospitalizations for a certain type of heart attack in two hospitals in northern India. This is the first prospective cohort study of this magnitude in … Read more
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi delivered his first public remarks at a U.S. university on Sept. 19 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Grandi sat down with UNC-Chapel Hill alumna and Director of Africa … Read more
