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Podcast |May 5, 2020
Episode 107 – How the Health Are You?!
UNC students and alumni share their COVID-19 experiences and provide some health-oriented advice for fellow bears.
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Article |May 1, 2020
University News
Spring 2020 Book Buyback and Rental Returns
Learn about textbook buybacks and rental returns both for online and in-person for spring 2020.
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Article |April 30, 2020
Health
Students Share Experiences in Battling Coronavirus
With the rapid spread of COVID-19, health care workers have seen major changes to their daily operations, while other organizations are aiming to increase health and diet awareness.
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Podcast |April 27, 2020
Episode 106 – What is a Provost?
UNC Provost, Mark R. Anderson, shares his university upbringing and discusses the importance of building community both on and off campus.
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Article |April 27, 2020
Arts and Culture
Lisa Zimmerman on Poetry During Isolation
Professor Lisa Zimmerman shares some of her experiences with poetry during this crisis to remind everyone that there is hope through poetry and art, especially now.
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April 24, 2020
Black Student Union President, J. Greer, and Student Senator, Josh Coleman, discuss the social structures of underserved groups in higher education.
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Article |April 22, 2020
Arts and Culture
Professor Helped Students with No-Contact Drop-Off of Supplies, Virtual Learning
As courses transition to alternate delivery for the remainder of the semester, UNC Professor Anne Toewe discovered new ways to teach courses and prepare students for online learning.
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Article |April 21, 2020
Health
Mindfulness in an Earthquake
How an earthquake teaches mindfulness lessons, and how mindfulness can help us cope with the change and uncertainty of a pandemic is discussed by UNC Professor Mike Kimball.
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Article |April 20, 2020
Health
Study of Immune Response Could Lead to SARS-CoV-2 Treatment
UNC faculty researcher Ann Hawkinson, who studies virus-host interactions in animals and their immune response during infection, says a vaccine is not the only thing being developed in response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Article |April 15, 2020
Social Impact
Ask the Expert: Police Interrogation and Confession
In the recently released book Understanding Police Interrogation, William Douglas Woody delves into psychological science and legal theory to provide a better understanding of best practices for tactics and factors that influence confessions. The UNC professor of Psychological Sciences elaborates on the ramifications of confessions, the combination of integrated factors that can affect outcomes, and what can be done to ensure a fair and just process.