Dr. Jamie Litty’s World Media course in the spring came with a class trip to London, England, where UNC Pembroke students visited the European headquarters of Bloomberg Television and the London offices of Concord Bicycle Music, the fifth-largest music company in the world. Traveling during Maymester, the students also had time to take in the …
The halls of the NASA Langley Research Center are usually filled with leading researchers and top engineers, working on projects related to aeronautics and exploration. However, on one day each year, bright aspiring teachers fill the oldest NASA field center as honored guests. Parks Drake, a student in the UNC Charlotte Cato College of Education, toured the …
The lobby at the UNC System Office tends to be a rather solemn space. The space features a baby grand piano, but it stands silently. Visitors and staff hastily breeze through on their way to meetings, but they rarely stop and talk. Even when they do pause to chat, the conversation is typically conducted in …
Summer School Promotes Student Success UNC System campuses were once tranquil places in June and July. Emptied of students, the hallways remained quiet except for the rattle of paint crews touching up the walls and maintenance personnel tinkering about, getting the facilities ready for the August rush. Tangles of thick, orange extension cords spilled out …
Elijah Gilbert’s laser-like gaze zeros in on a small wire atop his drone. Ron Poynter stands over Gilbert, offering direction on the construction of a drone that Poynter’s company, OnPoynt, created for camps such as Elizabeth City State University’s first-ever Drone Academy. While Poynter works with Gilbert and his drone team members on the construction …
The Summer Undergraduate Research Program is underway for the fourth consecutive year at Western Carolina University. The program is an initiative overseen by the university’s Honors College and the Office of the Provost, and is open to all WCU undergraduates. To be considered for the program, current students interested in participating had to identify a faculty member with whom they …
Fourteen Carolina media and journalism students tapped into what they’re learning in the classroom to document an archaeological dig site in Israel. A reporter goes wherever the story is — whether that’s just off campus in Carrboro or 6,100 miles away in Israel. As part of the Documenting the Dig course, 14 School of Media and …
College students discovering a drinking establishment isn’t anything new. But this one isn’t your everyday bar. Last year at the ruins of Brunswick Town, North Carolina — a once-thriving colonial port burned by British soldiers in 1776 and never rebuilt — East Carolina University doctoral student Matt Harrup found the remains of a tavern no …
In 2016, UNC Pembroke and N.C. State University established a joint engineering degree program allowing students to spend three years at UNCP and two years at N.C. State and graduate with bachelor’s degrees from both institutions. Dana Lamberton was among the first cohort of students at UNCP to take advantage of the 3-plus-2 program. This …
A team of physics students at UNC Pembroke won first place for best oral presentation at the 10th annual First Nations Launch National Rocket Competition in Wisconsin.