Upon discovering a series of political cartoons mocking artists in 18th– and 19th-century France in 2010, UNC-Chapel Hill art historian Kathryn Desplanque couldn’t stop searching for them. Now, she has amassed more than 500 and is using them to redefine … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held a roundtable discussion about federal funding for global education with U.S. Representative David Price on Monday, Sept. 20, at the FedEx Global Education Center. Price, a former Morehead Scholar and member of UNC-Chapel … Read more

Pedro Sáenz is an assistant professor and director of the Physical Mathematics Laboratory in the mathematics department in the College of Arts & Sciences. He works to demonstrate that some odd behaviors displayed by electrons and other atomic-sized particles can … Read more

The International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC), an initiative of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has awarded a one-year, €50,000 grant (nearly $60,000) to support graduate students in mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Universität Hamburg as part of a global learning pilot … Read more

As the U.S. contemplated entering World War II, it and other allied powers had a critical need. Air power was a major element of German military power, and the ability to detect incoming aerial attacks earlier could enable quicker responses … Read more

Katharina Malena Krause, an incoming graduate student from Hanover, Germany, has wanted to be a Tar Heel since she was 15 years old and first learned about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from her high school English … Read more

Thirteen representatives from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany met virtually to renew the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the universities and to affirm their commitment to continuing the strategic partnership. … Read more

From around the 14th century B.C., the steady buzz of everyday urban life reverberated within the city walls of ancient Hattusa, the Bronze Age capital of the Hittite Empire in modern-day Turkey. Craftspeople fashioned clothing and jewelry for elites, cattle … Read more

Christina Rudosky is a teaching assistant professor of French in the Department of Romance Studies within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. She studies surrealism and why objects were coveted, collected, and brought to life through writing and art … Read more