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Investing In The Future Of Sustainable Business

June 23, 2021

Nishitha Karumuri ’23, from Charlotte, North Carolina, was raised in an environmentally conscious home. She learned to recycle, shop sustainably and keep her showers to five minutes. After arriving at Carolina, she taught her roommates to recycle. However, it wasn’t … Read more

Message from MIS: COVID Crisis in India

May 19, 2021

A message from Anusha Chari, director of the Modern Indian Studies program, and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, senior associate dean for social sciences and global programs in the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill  As we begin to return to … Read more

Carolina Students Launch Clean Water Project

May 4, 2021

In Spring 2020, the Healthy Hands Initiative (HHI), a student-led, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, identified numerous villages across Bokaro district in Jharkhand with alarmingly high rates of deadly waterborne illness. It was brought about by a common challenge: local families resorting … Read more

What is ‘Safe’ Sanitation?

April 22, 2021

Imagine you’re a public health commissioner in Trichy, a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Your city has long been lauded as one of the cleanest in the state, particularly based on safe sanitation.  It’s a typical … Read more

Modern Indian Studies Initiative Launches Website

March 23, 2021

UNC Global is pleased to announce the launch of the new website for the Modern Indian Studies (MIS) initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The website, MIS.unc.edu, is an important next step for the initiative, which aims to bring together a wide … Read more