For Heidi Kelley, teaching isn’t just imparting information to students. Instead, she helps students “discover their knowledge for themselves.” “I challenge my students to dig deep into both their own experience and our class texts to unlock the meanings of human experience—theirs and those of others,” Kelley said. “Thus my teaching tactic is to gently …
UNC campuses help rural NC areas become ‘smart and connected communities’ Arcot Rajasekar knows there’s a technology gap between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. Rajasekar, who serves as the Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said rural grade school students …
Unique partnership puts UNC system professors, students on display at Museum of Natural Sciences For Jim Johnson, it’s one thing to discuss paleontology with his eighth grade science class at Lucas Middle School in Durham. It’s quite another for him to show his students actual paleontologists at work. On a field trip to the North …
The State of Black Asheville Research Spurs Buncombe County Commissioners into Action Ten years after research into The State of Black Asheville began, that ongoing UNC Asheville student research project has made headlines, coming from the classroom into the community and prompting significant new funding by Buncombe County for community programs addressing the needs of …
New WSSU program has university’s legal counsel mentoring students considering law school Asia Dukes knew she wanted to become a lawyer. As a then-junior at Winston-Salem State University, the Charlotte native worked voluntarily as part of the legal advocacy group that helped free Kalvin Michael Smith from nearly two decades of incarceration after he was …
Steve McKeand, professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University, has devoted his long academic career to making the state greener – in both an ecological and economic sense.
Board of Governors selects forestry professor leading innovative tree-breeding program for top service award. Steve McKeand gets funny looks when he tells people what he does for a living. “They have one of two reactions: stunned silence, or a giggle,” he says. High Resolution Download High Resolution Download It’s not easy being a tree breeder, …
The University of North Carolina Press has named the recipients of its first round of Thomas W. Ross Fund publishing grants.
“I marvel at your success,” said UNC President Margaret Spellings when introducing 2015 Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar at the July 29 Board of Governor’s meeting. Sancar was there to receive the O. Max Gardner Award, the oldest and most prestigious statewide honor given to a faculty member who has “made the greatest contribution to the …
Faculty and staff from across the UNC system put their heads together to learn about competency-based education models from around the country. Nearly 30 national experts covering a broad range of topics highlighted the 2016 Competency-Based Education Summit held at the University of North Carolina’s Center for School Leadership Development. Teams from UNC’s 17 campuses, …