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The UNC School of Social Work celebrated the naming of the Deloris P. Jordan Global Social Development Innovations Center on Oct. 5, an honor made possible by a

Created in 1966, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is celebrating six decades of transforming children’s lives through interdisciplinary research, evaluation and outreach.

For institute director Brian Boyd, FPG’s staying power comes from its legacy of “getting results.”

“It’s a testament to the impact of the research that has been...

For Leah Frerichs, service starts with listening.

Even to 16-year-olds. Even when they tell her she’s wrong.

In Frerichs’ model of community-engaged systems science, that’s the whole point: for researchers to listen as much as or more than they talk.

The transition from high school to a large university can be challenging, especially for first-generation college students and those from small, rural or resource-limited schools. Now, thanks to significant private support, more North Carolinians will start their college journey at UNC-Chapel Hill with the academic confidence, relationships and support networks they need to t...

Kenso Soai’s journey to winning the Nobel Prize included time at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Soai, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Science, was a postdoctoral researcher in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences’ chemistry department from 1979-81, working under Ernest Eliel, former W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry.

Soai and Henri B. Kagan of the Université o...