World Region: South Asia
UNC Team Receives Grant to Archive Sufi Materials from the Afghan-Pakistan Border
Waleed Ziad, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Ali Jarrahi Fellow in Persian Studies, and Rustin Zarkar, UNC Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian, have been awarded a Modern Endangered Archive Program (MEAP) grant by the University … Read more
UNC Hosts Rep. David Price to Discuss Federal Funding for Global Education
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
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner David Zucchino ’73 and Dean Susan King Have Wide-Reaching Conversation about Afghanistan
More than 230 UNC Hussman community members from around the country logged into Zoom at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 29, under the UNC Hussman Webinar Series banner for a unique opportunity to hear from one of the country’s most … Read more
The Triple Trauma of Refugees
Afghan refugees are coming to the Triangle, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work is ready to help them. Durham and Raleigh are among the cities that the State Department chose for resettlement of … Read more
New Asian American Center Opens
The center, led by Heidi Kim of the department of English and comparative literature, gives students, faculty and staff of Asian descent a place to call their own. When she was growing up, Selina Shi threw away the Chinese tea … Read more
Investing in the Future of Sustainable Business
Carolina junior Nishitha Karumuri, from Charlotte, North Carolina, was raised in an environmentally conscious home. She learned to recycle, shop sustainably and keep her showers to five minutes. After arriving at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Hosts Panel Discussion on US-India Relations with Current, Former Ambassadors
The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs (OVPGA) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Carolina’s Modern Indian Studies initiative, hosted the panel discussion “U.S.-India Relations Under the Biden Administration” on April 7, … Read more