Portrait of Thurston (Thad) Domina
Research Domina selected as 2026 AERA Fellow
Image of Daniel Willingham
School & Community Inaugural Barbara D. Day Lecture to feature leading cognitive psychology researcher Daniel Willingham
Portrait of Matt Bernacki.
Research Personalizing learning: Bernacki’s new co-edited handbook provides educators with tools to leverage their students’ strengths
Courtney Hattan, Ph.D., Todd Jensen, Ph.D., Katie Leech, Ph.D., Stephanie Anne Shelton, Ph.D. (left to right)
School & Community Four honored with faculty scholar distinctions
Image of Dorothy Espelage (right) and Marisa Marraccini (left)
Research Espelage, Marraccini co-leading $16 million PCORI study to reduce adolescent suicide-related risk
Peabody Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
School & Community Preparing teachers for today and tomorrow: UNC relaunches undergraduate Elementary Education degree
Portrait of Omari Tait
Students Where service meets innovation
Portrait of Daniel Watson
School & Community Driven by students and community
Side-by-side images. On the left, Annabelle Oberst, wearing a lavender cardigan and white top, smiles while standing outside of Peabody Hall. On the right, the back of a light blue Chapel Hill Transit bus displays an advertisement reading “Resilience is difficult — You never know when the next life challenge will come. But you can climb any mountain with the right tools,” alongside a QR code and illustration of a person climbing a mountain.
Alumni Connecting communities, Building resilience
Group photo from left: Annie Goldberg, Kathlene Holmes Campbell, Jennifer Ritz (accepting on behalf of her father, Willis Padgett Whichard), and Dean Jill V. Hamm at the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner held Saturday, Oct. 18, at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alumni School recognizes three at 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner
School counseling student Chloe Rhodes sits at a table with her laptop open, presenting to the cast of The Wolves about neuroscience
Academics PlayMakers, School of Education team up for ‘The Wolves’
Portrait of Dorothy Espelage
Academics Dorothy Espelage knows about bullying