University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Wesley Price has been selected as one of the 18 Luce Scholars for the 2020-2021 academic year. A nationally competitive fellowship program, the Luce Scholars Program was launched by the Henry Luce … Read more

Global and area studies centers provide the UNC-Chapel Hill community with essential services and resources for instruction, learning and research related to global issues, world regions and modern foreign languages.

With nearly 1 billion speakers, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. That’s almost 15 percent of the global population — and why UNC Asian studies professor Yi Zhou has spent the past decade teaching advanced Mandarin … Read more

Katie Munch Ramos (BSBA ’17) is leading a life that is the stuff of dreams – in Mongolia, a country where few Tar Heels run a business. Opportunity called: Ramos is the owner of UBean Coffee House and Roasterie in the capital city … Read more

New research from scientists at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has revealed that remdesivir (RDV, GS-5734) – a broad-spectrum antiviral medication previously shown to be effective against coronaviruses (COVs) like SARS-CoV, as well as against the Ebola virus – … Read more

Researchers from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Peers for Progress have collaborated with colleagues in Shanghai on a paper showing the contributions of peer support to diabetes management, published today in Translational Behavioral Medicine. This paper is … Read more