The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won a $900,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation through its Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia, for the project “Bringing Southeast Asia Home.”   Through efforts coordinated by the Carolina Asia … Read more

Ever since she was young, Eleanor Murray has been a daydreamer, and it’s what led her to become so fascinated with the world. “These expansive daydreams are fueled by an interest in the world that was instilled in me through … Read more

How should democratic societies balance the potential benefits of big data and artificial intelligence with human rights? How can we use machine learning to advance diagnostics and healthcare while preserving privacy protections? Amid the rapid acceleration of emerging technologies, these … Read more

This fall, a new course offered by the UNC School of Nursing challenged undergraduate and graduate students from across disciplines to solve a complex global problem related to refugee health and wellness. Students in N625, “Global and Interprofessional Approaches to Solve Complex Cases,” worked in four interdisciplinary teams to answer a prompt based on the fictional … Read more

Koji Tomita, Japanese ambassador to the United States, affirmed the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance and said that the U.S. and Japan should continue to strengthen political dialogues, economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges in an Oct. 6 virtual discussion about the countries’ alliance. The livestream event was part of … Read more

The UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University area studies centers connected with North Carolina educators in kitchens across the state in three virtual Cultural Kitchen sessions that explored dishes from Latin America, Southeast Asia and North Africa. The series served as … Read more

Educators from minority-serving institutions (MSI) and community colleges across the southeast led panels about how they utilize resources from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke area studies centers to advance global scholarship and integrate global curricula … Read more

Mattias Miller ’21 and Christina Oh ’22 have been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study less commonly taught languages during Summer 2021.  The Carolina awardees are among the nearly 700 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a CLS award … Read more

Katie Bowler Young, interim senior director for Global Partnership and Programs in the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, has been nominated for a Governor’s Award for Excellence, the highest honor a state employee can receive. The award recognizes contributions that make a positive difference … Read more

Eight students and staff members shared their study abroad experiences on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Study Abroad Office’s second open mic night, “Lost in Translation, Gained in Experience,” via Zoom. The event, … Read more