Students connected with alumni and leading experts throughout the week—now an annual tradition of UNC’s Diplomacy Initiative—to explore careers in global problem-solving.    How do you get to Washington, DC from Chapel Hill? Carolina students want to know, and they’re … Read more

Carolina and Nagoya University undergraduate women jointly explore education and careers in cybersecurity through U.S. Embassy Tokyo-funded exchange.   UNC-Chapel Hill and Nagoya University in Japan have joined forces to establish the Women’s Undergraduate Cybersecurity Engagement Program, organized by the … Read more

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, the latest global leader to participate in Carolina’s Diplomacy Initiative, outlined a worker-centered trade policy that emphasizes sustainability and equity. The United States is pursuing a new approach to its trade policy, said Ambassador Katherine … Read more

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