University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumna Sandy Alkoutami has been selected for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program run by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is UNC-Chapel Hill’s third recipient of this one-year award, which provides substantive work experience at the Carnegie Endowment for students and recent graduates.

When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher Elizabeth Stringer finished her OB-GYN residency in 2001, she and her husband, Jeff, had one young child and another on the way, and were considering the next steps in their careers and lives.

In 2003, Jonathan T.M. Reckford had been a successful business executive at some of the nation’s major corporations when he felt a calling to serve others in a deeper way. He left the corporate world behind to become a pastor … Read more

Santiago Gangotena went from attending the oldest public university in the United States to founding the first private liberal arts university in Ecuador. Ten years after receiving his doctorate in physics from Carolina in 1977, he built the Universidad San Francisco … Read more

As civil war erupted in his home country of Liberia, Raj Panjabi climbed onto a rescue cargo plane with his family and fled the destruction that would claim hundreds of thousands of lives. He was just nine years old. Years … Read more

Maggie Hilderbran, a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, a graduate studies scholarship to study at up to two United Kingdom institutions, in any field of study. Hilderbran plans to complete two master’s of science degrees in science and religion and space exploration systems.

Emily Venturi, a 2018 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Alice Huang, a 2016 graduate, have been selected for the Schwarzman Scholars program. This innovative master’s degree program supports study at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University and bridges the academic and professional worlds to educate students about leadership and China’s expanding role in the world.

One UNC-Chapel Hill researcher’s innovative AIDS prevention method is doing more than saving lives. It’s also protecting the privacy and dignity of people who often face intense stigma while living with HIV. While many methods focus prevention efforts on at-risk … Read more

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher is working to extend the life expectancy of more than half a million people in Malawi who are HIV positive, starting with some of the most vulnerable patients: women. Mina Hosseinipour has been working with UNC-Project Malawi to improve health outcomes country-wide.

By Patty Courtright, College of Arts & Sciences An international team of scholars, students and educators, led by two anthropologists from UNC-Chapel Hill, are teaching schoolchildren in Mexico about preserving stunning underground formations known as cenotes. Mexico’s lush Yucatán peninsula … Read more