Hundreds of Tar Heels are sharpening their language skills on campus by connecting with students abroad through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses. UNC-Chapel Hill offered 30 COIL courses in the 2022-2023 academic year, including eight language courses. “The COIL pedagogy is … Read more

Leaders at UNC-Chapel Hill and its longtime strategic partner Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany are finding new pathways for interdisciplinary collaborations.  A Carolina leadership delegation including Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, Vice Chancellor for Research Penny Gordon-Larsen, Vice Provost for Global … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill is one of 19 higher education institutions in the U.S., Norway and Japan selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Norwegian Panorama VE/COIL Partnerships Initiative. Five Carolina faculty and staff recently traveled to … Read more

In the 20 years since UNC-Chapel Hill’s relationship with the National University of Singapore (NUS) began, it has grown into a strategic partnership opening new paths for collaboration in Southeast Asian studies.  To explore new collaborations, Christian Lentz, associate professor … Read more

This May and June, more than 30 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students advanced their research and gained valuable career skills by organizing and participating in academic workshops with graduate students at Carolina’s strategic partner, King’s College London (KCL). Participating UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

Four UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2023-2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Patrick Davison, Anthony Hackney, Carissa Hessick and Pamela Lothspeich are among … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program to develop and expand international education. The 34 U.S. colleges and universities that received grants this year … Read more

The Center for Slavic, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) at UNC-Chapel Hill has been designated as a National Resource Center (NRC) for language and area studies by the U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education office. With … Read more

Nine Tar Heels have received scholarships and fellowships from the federal Boren Awards, breaking UNC-Chapel Hill’s previous record of five finalists in 2003. Carolina is now positioned as a 2023 top-performing institution for combined total Boren Awards and for Boren … Read more

Twenty-one UNC-Chapel Hill students received the U.S. Department of State’s Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad this summer and fall. The number of awardees is a new record for Carolina, three times higher than the usual count of recipients in an … Read more