An excerpt of an essay by Banu Gökariksel for ISLAMiCommentary, part of a Transcultural Islam Project produced by the Duke Islamic Studies Center in partnership with the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
Amy Dingler came to Carolina from another Fayetteville, the one in Georgia. But instead of heading due north, as one would expect, Amy’s route to Chapel Hill took her in a different direction—through India, Hungary and Madagascar, with a detour through Europe. As one of UNC’s first Global Gap Year Fellows, Amy deferred her admission...
Federal funding for international education has never been so poor. This year’s 5 percent sequestration, on top of a 47 percent cut in 2011, has brought the Department of Education’s National Resource Centers to their lowest level of support since the program was established in 1959. - An essay by Charles Kurzman
Carol L. Folt, interim president of Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences, has been elected the 11th chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. UNC President Tom Ross placed Folt’s name in nomination today (April 12) during...
Seven Carolina students traveled to Malawi with Students of the World, an organization partnering multimedia production teams of college students with innovative nonprofits. The students documented the work of the P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water Program in Malawi through photography, video, interviews and social media.
Joint Shakespeare Conference at King’s College London
Global Education Fund Helps Open World for Young Alumna
Renowned King’s College London Medical Sociologist Visits Carolina 
Peach Awarded Grant to Develop Course on Communicating About Climate Change