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Carolina Global Food Program Summer Scholarship
The Carolina Global Food Program, an initiative within the Global Research Institute, is announcing its fourth annual competitive scholarship program in the summer of 2019. In the program a select number of Carolina Global Food Program “Summer Scholars will be awarded up to $5,000 each to support food related summer research projects. Each awardee will… Read more »
Global Heel Emily Venturi ’18 Came to Carolina for an International Experience
For Emily Venturi ’18, international education began the moment she set foot on campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Trieste, Italy, Venturi came to Carolina on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship with the goal of pursuing a double major in political science and economics. “My dad is Italian, and my… Read more »
UNC-Chapel Hill and NUS Joint Degree Program Links Academics, Cultures, and People
Lee Mun Yee’s passion for literature has led her to many places out of her comfort zone, but none more so than the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an English literature major at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Lee joined a growing joint degree program (JDP) between Carolina and NUS. Yee… Read more »
Jarrahi Family Supports New Professorship in Persian Studies
With the generous support of the Jarrahi family, the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Chapel Hill College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce a new tenure-track assistant professor position in Islamic studies with a specialization in Persian/Iranian studies, funded by the newly established Dr. Ali Jarrahi Term Professorship. The announcement… Read more »
Campus Allies: UndocuCarolina Offers Trainings for University Faculty and Staff
UndocuCarolina, a project of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and students, has begun to host “Campus Ally” training sessions to inform the UNC-Chapel Hill community about current immigration policies and to share resources for supporting undocumented and DACAmented students on the Carolina campus. The last training was held in November 2018 and the group will host more… Read more »
Pay-It-Forward Model Increases STD Testing Among Gay Men in China
Chinese gay men who were offered a free screening for gonorrhea and chlamydia and then asked to donate to the testing of another man were 48 percent more likely to get tested than men who were offered the standard of care. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s UNC Project-China site said… Read more »
Combating Fake News: UNC Team Wins International Competition for Their Fact-Checking System
The increasing concern over misinformation and “fake news” in the marketplace of ideas has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact-checking via machine learning and natural language processing methods. A UNC-Chapel Hill computer science team, led by assistant professor Mohit Bansal, won first place in the first international Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) Challenge in Brussels, Belgium. The… Read more »
Study Identifies Complex Network of Factors Impeding Health System Reform in Iraqi Kurdistan
New research from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health offers the first comprehensive research to identify factors that have inhibited the growth of a sustainable health care system in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), a deficit that has placed the region’s people at risk for worsening health outcomes. Dilshad Jaff, program coordinator for… Read more »
Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer Open Forums
The Vice Provost for Global Affairs search committee is pleased to announce details for the open forums with the final candidates. These forums are designed to give the campus community an opportunity to hear from candidates about their experience and their ideas for enhancing UNC-Chapel Hill, and an opportunity for you to provide feedback. The… Read more »
225 Years of Tar Heels: Santiago Gangotena
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 de Quito, one of UNC-Chapel Hill’s key international partners in research and education. The partnership… Read more »