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According to a new poll, people across political and demographic lines think the private space race is good for the future but still just an ego trip for the billionaires involved.
The US has split into “two Americas,” one of the unvaccinated and one of the vaccinated. The differences in deaths and hospitalizations between the two populations are striking.
A professor who researches BTS is building a diverse archive of media and analysis about the pop icons.
In the immediate aftermath of an event like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the path forward is not always clear. Looking backward, what have we learned?
New research shows an ambitious state plan to broaden diversity at public universities is missing the mark when it comes to flagship universities.
Solar-powered cold chain technologies can be game-changers in the fight against COVID-19 in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
A new study is the first to identify sex differences in inflammation and immune cell activation in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, which causes COVID-19.
Two Lumbee scholars who have mined local archives in search of tribal history raise the profound question: Who has the rights to memories and artifacts of their people’s past?
A scholar who studies Holocaust survivors sees an explanation for why women change their stories of sexual assault, even now in the
MeToo era.
Hurricane Harvey destroyed the fishing infrastructure of Aransas Bay and reduced fishing by 80% over the following year. This removed humans from the trophic cascade and whole food webs changed.
At the height of Reaganism, close to half of Americans believed a phrase popularized by Karl Marx actually derived from the US Constitution. It doesn’t, but scholars have traced it to the Bible.
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
How would Joe Biden engage a world upended by Trump? A diplomacy expert explains what Biden’s history says about his foreign policy priorities.
Even a highly popular and respected leader can lose an election, writes a historian – especially if they don’t have a plan for the future. Churchill was one of them.
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has a long history of struggle, protest and resistance to white supremacy and its social effects.
In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions and health care help to explain the pandemic’s racially disparate toll.
The United States has 53 million caregivers, according to the latest estimate. And COVID-19 makes what they do much harder.
Being a member of a certain age group shouldn’t be a liability.
Beijing is touting its role in the world and praising its autocratic governmental system and its huge countrywide surveillance network. Hawks in Washington aren’t impressed.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Postdoctoral fellow, Kellogg School of Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Director of Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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David G. Frey Assistant Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History; Director of the Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Research Associate of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
