Five-year project stimulates U.S.-Japan partnerships, exchange Carolina’s Associate Provost for Global Affairs Heather Ward returned to Japan in January 2024, weeks after a UNC delegation’s groundbreaking visit there. While in Japan, she helped launch a five-year initiative, which aims to … Read more

Carolina, Japan strengthen relationships, prepare to tackle challenges The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Japan have fostered a meaningful relationship for more than a century. In 1893, Shinzaburo Mogi of Tokyo arrived at Carolina as UNC’s first … Read more

Professor Brenda Yeoh from the National University of Singapore’s Geography department—ranked fifth in the world— visited Carolina in late September to meet faculty in the Department of Geography and give a public talk. She also sat down for an interview … 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

For the final event in Carolina’s second annual Diplomacy Week, the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs partnered with Carolina Performing Arts to screen the documentary film “Beethoven in Beijing” followed by a Q&A with the film’s producer … Read more

It’s time to start making decisions that create a form of capitalism that benefits everyone. That’s according to Rana Foroohar, Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst, who called for economic localization during a keynote held March 9 as part of … Read more

Research administrators and faculty from four Japanese universities visited UNC-Chapel Hill last month to learn how Carolina teaches and supports entrepreneurship and innovation. The March 9-10 program engaged more than 150 students, 35 faculty and staff, and eight local government … Read more

CHAPEL HILL – Ten undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were selected as Phillips Ambassadors for Spring 2023 study abroad programs in Asia. Undergraduate scholarship recipients will study in Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.   The Phillips … Read more