In many low- and lower middle-income countries, great natural wealth contrasts with a desire for economic development. Noah Kittner, is an assistant professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, where he examines … Read more

Fourteen undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for Summer, Fall, and Academic Year 2021 study abroad programs in Asia. Undergraduate scholarship recipients will study in Hong Kong, Singapore and South … Read more

Mattias Miller ’21 and Christina Oh ’22 have been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study less commonly taught languages during Summer 2021.  The Carolina awardees are among the nearly 700 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a CLS award … Read more

Daniel Ogunbamowo, once at risk of flunking out of school, turned his life around, got accepted to Carolina on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship and has continued to seize every opportunity since. Senior Daniel Ogunbamowo’s journey to Carolina was a long one, … Read more

Watching the sunrise on Mount Fuji is among the memorable experiences in senior Michael Sparks award-winning film about his trip to Japan. Michael Sparks ’21, a communication studies and computer science major, was recognized as one of three finalists in … Read more

Through study of a “new” Japanese religion called Tenrikyo and centuries of Japanese history, doctoral student Timothy Smith strives to understand how cultural shifts morph belief systems across generations. The bronze felt cold and gritty under Timothy Smith’s hand. He … Read more