For Shamira Lukomwa, working in Africa is personal. It was this passion that led Lukomwa to take what she learned as a double major in global studies and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to … Read more

UNC Global saw a record-breaking number of people participate in the annual passport drive on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16. A total of 373 students, faculty, staff and family members applied for or renewed their passports, up from last year’s … Read more

Fifteen K-12 educators from across the state traveled to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to see Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour in concert at Memorial Hall on Oct. 25, 2016. It was a rare opportunity to see the … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 19th among all U.S. higher education institutions for the number of students earning credit for study abroad, according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) 2016 Open Doors Report on International … Read more

Bahij ’17 came to the United States as a refugee, fleeing the Syrian civil war to a place where, he explained, he could enjoy freedom of speech and feel like a citizen. “When Americans welcome refugees, one day my kids … Read more

Three students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were named 2016 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellows Program, making Carolina one of the top producers of Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellows. UNC was awarded $109,256 in funding for the … Read more

For Claudia Yaghoobi, a passion for learning and education was instilled in her from a young age. Now an assistant professor of Persian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yaghoobi grew up in an Armenian family … Read more

The Fulbright Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is robust and nationally recognized: between 1973 to 2015, more than 250 students from UNC received Fulbright Student Awards grants to research, study and teach abroad. In 2014-15, … Read more

Take advantage of an easy on-campus opportunity to apply for or renew your U.S. passport at the FedEx Global Education Center from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Nov. 15 and 16 during UNC Global’s annual Passport Drive. Students, faculty, … Read more

On Oct. 24, journalist Fred Kaplan discussed the next front in the cyber war between the United States and Russia in a talk sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES) and the Curriculum in Peace, … Read more