Federico Gil Distinguished Professor Henry Fuchs was awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Wien in Vienna, Austria on May 8. Fuchs was recognized for his service to the scientific development of computer graphics, in particular in the fields of virtual … Read more

Doctoral student Lisa Bauer was awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Bauer was one of 2,000 fellowship awardees for 2018 selected from more than 12,000 applicants nationwide. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), launched in 1952, … Read more

Doctoral students Tanya Amert and Catherine Nemitz were selected for induction into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society for 2018. Amert and Nemitz were two of 21 inductees in 2018. The Frank Porter Graham Graduate and … Read more

Kenan Distinguished Professor James H. Anderson was named the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. The IEEE TCRTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award has been given annually since 1999 … Read more

Nobody, Carolina first-year Graham Trogdon said, should be excluded from a college campus just because of a disability. That was the message he wanted to send to the nearly 150 blind and visually impaired children who visited the University of … Read more

The UNC Science Expo packed Cameron Street as hundreds of future scientists and eager local residents gathered around white tents to learn about scientific innovation at UNC. The Expo is a part of the North Carolina Science Festival, a month-long … Read more

Alumnus Andrew S. Maimone (Ph.D. 2015, M.S. 2012) was selected as one of two winners of the 2018 IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award. Maimone was recognized at the 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) … Read more

Sitting in a room with fellow team members and higher-up employees, someone suggests a solution for a work problem. No one in the room acknowledges they said anything. A few moments later, someone beside them says the same thing and … Read more

Phi Beta Kappa inducted 190 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students as new members. The recent induction ceremony featured a keynote address by William L. Roper, M.D., MPH, dean of the UNC School of Medicine. New members received … Read more

According to the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, just 24 percent of computer scientists today are women, and only 4 percent of female first-year students are enrolled in computing courses. At UNC, women make up nearly 30 percent of the … Read more