Program Support - Arts and Sciences Foundation

Social Media, Smart Phones and the Adolescent Brain

The Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain and Psychological Development will create more tools for parents, caregivers and teens to make better-informed choices about how they interact with technology

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, Miriam and Tom Zietlow, and Dean Jim White.

Largest Single Gift to Carolina Public Humanities Launches Statewide Civic Engagement Project

Funded with a generous gift from Miriam ’83 and Tom Zietlow (MBA ’01), the project will work to help North Carolinians better understand the importance of democratic institutions, voting and

The UNC Writing and Learning Center provides a variety of services to help students excel, including personalized academic coaching tailored to your needs. We also offer peer tutoring, group workshops, and online resources that help students with everything from test prep to STEM courses.

Maximizing Success for All Tar Heels

Michael Stutts ’02 is dedicated to building awareness of the Writing and Learning Center’s comprehensive services and “leveling the playing field” by helping all students regardless of academic level or

Students in the Summer Bridge program pose for a portrait with Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz on July 25, 2022, at the Old Well on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Building a Bridge to Success at Carolina

Summer Bridge is a six-week transition program that is designed to ease participants’ personal and academic transition from high school to Carolina. The program is open to all admitted incoming

Nehemiah Stewart ’21, alum of the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship

Changing Life Trajectories

The Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship empowers students to turn ideas and inspiration into action and thanks to the transformational support of the Shuford family, this undergraduate entrepreneurship program has doubled

Treating Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans

The Matthew Gfeller Center launched a new initiative to make treatment for traumatic brain injuries more accessible for military veterans in and around North Carolina, thanks to a $12.5 million

Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor Geoff Sayre-McCord, the founding director of the program

Investing in Faculty, Students and Programs Through Leadership and Philanthropy

“We are committed to the idea of exposing students to the work of free-market thinkers; and the PPE Program, by its very nature, does this well, while also exposing students

PlayMakers’ fall 2021 production of The Skin of Our Teeth featured Ray Dooley (right) in his final performance as a PlayMakers Company member.

The Power of Discretionary Funding

In his years working as head of a boarding school in New Jersey, T. Chandler “Chan” Hardwick ’75 learned firsthand the importance of having discretionary funding to fulfill his responsibilities

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, then dean of the College (left), celebrated Alex Yong and Wendi Sturgis’ gift at Carolina’s campaign kickoff in October 2018. The couple’s support benefits scholarships, the Writing and Learning Center and diversity initiatives in the department of computer science. (photo by Jafar Fallahi)

Paying It Forward

“We believe strongly that all college students, no matter their background, should have every resource available to ensure their ultimate success,” said Alex Yong ’90

UNC undergrads visit Phillips Island as part of Dr. Niels Lindquist’s class in 2020. Photo: UNC-IMS

Morehead City Native Gifts Family’s Island to UNC Institute of Marine Sciences

“At the very end, it came down to what was more important to me and that is making sure that the island stays unmolested, if you would, and free.”