Professor Rich Goldberg uses group projects, and even welcomes conflict, to give students a taste of professional life.

When music professor Mark Katz says he wants his students to have a hands-on learning experience, he means it. Katz often takes his classes on a “field trip” to his office to check out his turntables. For students raised on … Read more

In 2010, Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and her husband, internationally acclaimed Congolese filmmaker and activist Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, traveled to 33 colleges and universities around the country to show their film, Jazz Mama, which documents the strength of Congolese women in … Read more

Economics professors Rita Balaban and Donna Gilleskie discuss the improvements to higher-order learning achieved by bringing skills practice into the classroom.

DeSaix, a UNC biology master lecturer, understands those university students from small towns and rural areas. Many students are overwhelmed by what seems at first to be an enormous campus.

It’s seven a.m. on a spring morning, and associate professor of art Cary Levine is at UNC’s Memorial Hospital, delivering an early morning lecture to an unexpected crowd — UNC medical students.

On a recent Monday morning, five consultants presented their recommendations on affordable housing options to a Carrboro town task force.

Students set out to quantify seafood mislabeling using DNA barcoding technology and to discuss the impact that it has on human health and marine ecosystems.

Jane Thrailkill has been interested in the relationship between literature and illness, between the humanities and the sciences, since she was 18 years old.

Dr. James Ferguson’s honors seminar focused on food sustainability provides a “once in a lifetime experience” that is “unlike other courses at UNC.”