Jialing Jiang, a fourth-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Chang Zhao, a 2015 graduate of the University, have been selected for the Schwarzman Scholars program, an elite China-based scholarship modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship and founded … Read more

The massive increase of tourists visiting Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands is bringing a new set of challenges for the islands’ ecosystem. In this week’s episode, we talk to Steve Walsh, the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor of Geography and director of the Center … Read more

Even as a middle-class child growing up in Durham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Gavin Bell understood what it meant to be a Lumbee Indian. He knew his family roots ran deep in Robeson County because of … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week from Nov. 14 through Nov. 20, hosting a series of events related to business, government and more. Launched by the Kauffman Foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s … Read more

Since the 1980s, air pollution has increased worldwide, but it has increased at a much faster pace in regions close to the equator. Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now reveals that this changing global emissions … Read more

Jodi Magness hasn’t just studied history by reading books. She’s dug it up herself. The Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has spent her career working on archeological … Read more

Colin Thor West, associate professor in the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became interested in the lives and challenges of rural farmers when he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa, … Read more

Paul Cuadros, associate professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Media and Journalism and executive director of N.C. Sli, will be the featured speaker at the Winter Commencement ceremony. Chancellor Carol L. Folt will preside … Read more

If ecotourism in the Galápagos Islands—a province of Ecuador 1,000 kilometers from the mainland—continues to match its growth rate of the past two decades, the renowned sea turtles, giant tortoises, marine iguanas and unique landscapes that help attract visitors face … Read more

When Mike Markels first left Washington, D.C. to manage financial crises in emerging markets, first to Slovenia, then Bosnia and Thailand, he thought he’d keep traveling east until he ended up back in the United States. Markels, who earned a … Read more