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  • South Building on the campus of University of North Carolina

    Carolina maintains AAA bond rating

    All three major ratings agencies gave the University their highest rating, citing factors such as resiliency during the pandemic and budget management.

  • Two people talking.

    Maymester course turns Tar Heels into scriptwriters

    Students in Maymester's "Writing for the 30-Minute Comedy” course collaborated with Tar Heels from "Acting for the Camera" and "Directing for the Camera" to write and produce scenes for a sitcom in just three weeks.

  • The Singapore skyline.

    Maymester in Singapore

    More than a dozen Tar Heels students spent Maymester in Singapore to learn about the country’s media markets, visit with a range of media professionals, meet with alumni and take in the country’s history and culture.

  • The Bell Tower.

    Carolina’s newest distinguished professors

    The University has awarded distinguished professorships to more than four dozen faculty in eight schools and the College of Arts & Sciences.

  • Jade Neptune standing outside.

    When creative arts and political science collide

    One high school civics class changed everything for Jade Neptune, who created a nonprofit to support students’ extracurricular interests.

  • Dredren Smith standing outside.

    An unconventional path

    Dedren Snead '12 is an Innovator-In-Residence at the UNC Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship, but his path to this point in his career has been anything but a linear trajectory. The pivotal point in his journey, he says, was getting a degree from Carolina.

  • Elizabeth Basnight riding her bicycle pulling a carriage with two children.

    She commutes by bike for exercise, time with children

    Elizabeth Basnight pulls her two kids behind her in a bike trailer. By the time she goes from home to daycare to work at the Kenan Center and back again, it’s an 8-mile roundtrip.

  • Officer Matt Dodson with K9

    Explosive detection K-9 retires after 7 years of sniffing out danger

    After seven years of keeping the UNC community safe, Kash has earned “a steak or two” in retirement, says UNC Police K-9 handler Matt Dodson.