Outgoing trustees praised for their service
Resolutions, testimonials and their own words describe how they led and what they learned.
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COVID-19 has become endemic
The federal public health emergency response has ended, but the disease — in its new phase — still poses a threat, says Dr. David J. Weber.
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Newest distinguished professors, spring 2023
The University awarded honorary titles and research funding to faculty from five schools plus the College.
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Record number of students earn Gilman International Scholarship
In total, 21 Tar Heels will use U.S. Department of State funding to study in 16 countries, gaining national security and economic competitiveness skills.
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Barbara Stephenson visits Belfast to celebrate 25 years of peace
Carolina’s chief global officer calls Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement a “triumph of modern diplomacy.”
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University Libraries and SAGE Publishing expand open-access publishing at Carolina
The agreement will help Carolina researchers reach as broad of an audience as possible when publishing.
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Carolina ranks high in doctoral degrees for the underrepresented
“It is critical that we build community so we can be a university in service for all,” said Beth Mayer-Davis, dean of The Graduate School.
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Women’s tennis downs NC State for NCAA title
Having also won the last four ITA Indoor Team National Championships, the Tar Heels are arguably the top women’s tennis program in the nation.
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Hussman professor earns second Fulbright to document Japan’s cultural changes
Pat Davison will produce documentary videos on how the country’s traditional culture is intersecting with globalization and modern influences.
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A new iteration of the Black press is changing the media landscape
Some present-day organizers for racial justice are using journalism as a form of advocacy, a long-practiced tactic. In Kansas City, Missouri, Ryan Sorrell founded the Kansas City Defender in 2020, a nod to the Chicago Defender, one of the most influential Black newspapers. “Throughout history, the Black press has served an advocacy role,” the Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s Trevy A. McDonald told NPR.
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If TikTok, SnapChat aren’t harming kids, they should prove it
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued a warning that social media could be harming our kids and has also called for more transparency from social media companies. “Companies are assertively hiring psychological scientists from our own programs and labs, but we don’t know what they’re doing and what information they have,” the School of Medicine’s Mitch Prinstein told Blomberg.
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Women’s health providers face mental health ‘tsunami’
The pandemic, political discord, misinformation and what the U.S. surgeon general has called an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation” confront obstetrics and gynecology professionals as intensely as the rest of the population, according to the School of Medicine’s Samantha Meltzer-Brody, who was quoted by Healio. Health care has been under attack, she said, and “it can feel like there’s a tsunami that’s hitting us each day.”
