About Time
November 14, 2022
Once unsure of where her life was headed, UNC professor and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom is in demand, in control — and done with regrets. … More About Time
Category: Education
The Color of Augmented Reality
October 7, 2022
Kya Johnson has gone from go-kart go-getter to founder and CEO of RainbowMe, a company that creates fairy tales and folklore narratives with people of color as the main characters. … More The Color of Augmented Reality
Relevance Rediscovered
May 10, 2021
At 49, Greg Michie gave it all up. His tenure-track position. His flexible schedule. His unhurried lunch hour. (His lunch hour, period.) In 2012, as a citywide teacher’s strike loomed, Michie left the relative comforts of higher education. He returned to the undervalued but indispensable work of public school teaching in America. … More Relevance Rediscovered
Compassion as an Action Verb
January 14, 2021
“How do we institutionalize compassion? If we are all products of our systems, how do we make these systems compassionate? Imagine police departments whose main focus is caring for the community, is compassion. What if, from the very beginning, compassion is the anchor for all our social institutions?” … More Compassion as an Action Verb
Next Research Launch: Carolina’s Own Satellite
January 31, 2020
Andrew Mann told all the universities who interviewed him for faculty positions that he planned to buy his own CubeSat, but Carolina’s response intrigued him: “They said, ‘Don’t buy it. Build it.’ ” … More Next Research Launch: Carolina’s Own Satellite
The Student Body Shop
August 12, 2019
What you see, smell and hear here is shop class and home economics refurbished for the digital age. Hundreds of willing participants know this as BeAM, or “be a maker,” UNC’s answer to the worldwide makerspace movement — the collaborative culture of making physical objects using both digital and traditional tools. Now entering its fourth year, BeAM makerspaces are leading the Carolina community and its students through a re-emergence of know-how, in and out of the classroom. … More The Student Body Shop
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