For Christopher Westgard –– a doctoral candidate in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health –– his diverse academic background is rooted in a long-held interest in the health and wellbeing of … Read more

Poised to become the world’s third largest economy by 2030, the modern India we see today isn’t the same India that Anusha Chari remembers from childhood. “I grew up in India in the 1970s and ’80s, at a time well … Read more

Milada Vachudova’s scholarship on the evolution of the political landscape of Europe and post-communist democratization is due, in part, to her family roots. The daughter of refugees from Czechoslovkia who found themselves camping in the United States at the time … Read more

For Maya Weinberg ’19, learning has never been limited to the classroom. After graduating from high school, Weinberg knew she needed to move beyond the classroom to gain additional experience before enrolling in a university to pursue her undergraduate degree. … Read more

Hannah Gill has seen her home state of North Carolina change significantly since she was a youth. “I’m from Alamance County, a very rural community. In many ways, it’s a much more urban and global place than when I grew … Read more

For Emily Venturi ’18, international education began the moment she set foot on campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Trieste, Italy, Venturi came to Carolina on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship with the goal of … Read more

UndocuCarolina, a project of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and students, has begun to host “Campus Ally” training sessions to inform the UNC-Chapel Hill community about current immigration policies and to share resources for supporting undocumented and DACAmented students on the Carolina … Read more

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and raised in an Army family, Maribel Carrion has always been familiar with travel. Moving from North Carolina to Germany to Panama to Miami, Carrion grew up with a larger sense of the world … Read more

Designed to provide students with an international education firmly rooted in both European and American perspectives, the TransAtlantic Masters (TAM) Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2018.

For Jim Thomas, director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project and associate professor of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, global health and environmental changes are inextricably linked. “For example, because some areas are now warmer than they … Read more