Outgoing trustees praised for their service
Resolutions, testimonials and their own words describe how they led and what they learned.
Resolutions, testimonials and their own words describe how they led and what they learned.
The federal public health emergency response has ended, but the disease — in its new phase — still poses a threat, says Dr. David J. Weber.
The University awarded honorary titles and research funding to faculty from five schools plus the College.
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.
Carolina’s chief global officer calls Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement a “triumph of modern diplomacy.”
The agreement will help Carolina researchers reach as broad of an audience as possible when publishing.
“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.
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.
Pat Davison will produce documentary videos on how the country’s traditional culture is intersecting with globalization and modern influences.
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.
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.
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.”