“We heard early on from students this question: How do I know if I’m part of the Diplomacy Initiative?” said Barbara Stephenson, Carolina’s vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer. “Tonight, we have an answer for you.” UNC … Read more

More than 300,000 North Carolina jobs exist because of foreign direct investment in the state. Disruptive technologies like generative artificial intelligence are altering economies. For 26 years, UNC World View staff — educators and experts themselves — have linked educators … Read more

The Americans had discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba through aerial photography, and there were already seven minutes on the clock. The students in Michael Morgan’s “Global Cold War” course had to decide how to proceed in the Cuban Missile Crisis … Read more

Jennifer Mulveny ’96 starts every workday with a notebook — of the pen-and-paper variety. Her office has a locker full of these physical notebooks, peppered with sticky notes outlining plans, processes and ideas, as well as a good old-fashioned to-do … Read more

This November, four scientists from Japanese universities, selected by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), similar to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), traveled to Chapel Hill for a fast-paced, five-day series of workshops, presentations, site visits and networking. … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill ranked ninth among universities in the U.S. for study abroad participation, according to the Open Doors 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange. This is the University’s highest ranking in nearly 20 years. Last year, Carolina ranked 13th. The … Read more

Rapid technological advances and growing concern over information warfare are shaping today’s media landscape with the potential to undermine democracies.  Researchers from a wide array of disciplines at UNC-Chapel Hill and two of Carolina’s strategic partner universities — Eberhard Karls … Read more

The North Carolina Department of Commerce hosted the Southeast U.S./Japan (SEUS/Japan) Conference in Charlotte, Oct. 27-29. For the first time in the meeting’s 46-year history, organizers invited higher education institutions to participate, highlighting the valuable role colleges and universities play … Read more

For many Americans, the world feels fast-changing and chaotic, even fragile or unstable. According to the 2024 Global Peace Index, there are 56 ongoing conflicts, significantly more than at any time since World War II. However, on Oct. 22, during … Read more

This fall, researchers, philosophers, lawyers and students from 21 institutions around the world convened at Carolina for a conference to discuss how to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to address critical issues in society. Participants presented on the uses of AI … Read more