September 2025 Archives

Carolina Connection – Sep. 13, 2025

September 13, 2025 Editor

Colleagues honor the life of late Professor Zijie Yan with a new memorial on campus. Computer science students worry about AI impacting their future. A local puppeteer group is back on stage after tropical storm Chantal destroyed much of their warehouse. Amateur and professional poets have a new place to workshop. The hiring of Bill Belichick has changed the football game day experience – for better or worse.

Colleagues memorialize Professor Zijie Yan, two years after he was shot on campus

September 12, 2025 Liana Riachi

The death of Professor Zijie Yan in August of 2023 was memorialized by his colleagues in a quaint corner of Caudill Laboratories.

The campus community holds its annual stair climb to remember those lost on 9/11

September 12, 2025 Andrew Sellers

The memorial event at Kenan Stadium commemorated the lives lost 24 years ago on September 11, 2001.

AI is lightening students’ workload, but is it harming them in the long run?

September 12, 2025 Marguerite Stouse

Some experts forecast that AI will take a large number of entry-level positions away from new graduates. Others worry that students will become too dependent on it.

As Bill Belichick takes over, UNC brings changes to the football gameday experience

September 12, 2025 Gracie Durham

UNC’s hire of Bill Belichick has been accompanied by a new university initiative that turns game days into campus-wide events.

Local puppeteers are back on stage after tropical storm Chantal destroyed much of their warehouse

September 12, 2025 Brooks Stevenson

The Paperhand Puppet Project’s warehouse was damaged by Chantal’s flooding destroying many puppets. Despite more than $100,000 losses, the troupe quickly rebounded.

Workshop series welcomes local poets to share their thoughts and works

September 12, 2025 Anthony Guerra-Flores

Poet Laureate and Professor Donovan Livingston hosted the first of four poetry workshops in a series of what he hopes will be a place where poets can feel safe and free enough to share, converse, and write.