On March 24 the container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week, causing potentially billions in lost trade while hundreds of other cargo ships motored in circles waiting for the canal to reopen. … Read more

Carolina professor and filmmaker Julia Haslett, who’s latest documentary tells the story of conservationists restoring rhododendrons to their native China, brings the natural world to the screen and to her classroom. We may take for granted the plants in our … Read more

Since the Phillips Ambassadors Program began in 2007, the scholarship program has supported approximately 360 undergraduates studying abroad in Asia. Three undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for study abroad … Read more

Experts from across the world participated in the 60th annual Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies via videoconference from January 15 –17, 2021.  Co-hosted by the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Carolina Asia Center (CAC) and Department of Asian and Middle … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is deepening its connections with Japan and building on relationships more than a century in the making. Carolina’s first international student is believed to be Shinzaburo Mogi from Tokyo, who attended the … Read more

The director of UNC Project-China, a research and service collaboration between the University and Chinese partner institutions, has learned to adapt and stay flexible amid the global pandemic. UNC is one of the top research universities in the country, and … Read more

Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Ph.D. UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy What is your position at UNC? Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry & Director of Natural Products Research Laboratories at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. What is your favorite part of … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry; King’s College London’s Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences; National University of Singapore Faculty of Dentistry; and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Dental School, are establishing the DentAlliance to advance and transform research, education, and practice in dentistry and the oral and craniofacial health sciences. The initial … Read more