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Excellence in teaching Meet Tar Heel educators

Updated Sept. 22, 2025

At Carolina, we strive to give our students the knowledge, resources and confidence to succeed.

That mission can’t be carried out without the expertise, leadership and mentorship of our outstanding Tar Heel educators. In short, they’re rock stars (some actually are).

Keep scrolling to learn about UNC-Chapel Hill’s brilliant teachers.

Creative classes

From basketball legend to professor

Tyler Hansbrough is co-teaching a sports communication class this semester at Carolina, sharing his experiences with the media from playing professionally in the NBA and in China and winning a national title as a Tar Heel.

Learn more about Hansbrough’s class.

Tyler Hansborough at the front of a classroom.

Going old school

Students in Ruth von Bernuth’s GERM 227 class used Davis Library’s 19th century iron printing press to produce a broadsheet. They created an illustration in Carolina’s MakerSpace before working with University Libraries staff to add words using the press.

Read more about the class and the 1884 printing press.

Students use the 1884 press during a class.

Art students’ negative experience is positive

When Carolina students take ARTS 115: Darkroom Photography I, they have a chance to dive into the history of photography, learn film techniques and gain the experience of working in a darkroom.

See scenes from visiting lecturer Lindsay Metivier’s class on darkroom photography, captured on film.

Film photo of Lindsay Metivier's film photography class taking a group picture.

An artistic and scientific crossover

When Beth Grabowski and Bob Goldstein team up, science becomes an art and art becomes a science.

Check out photos of students and teachers at work in Art & Science: Merging Printmaking and Biology.

Bob Goldstein and Beth Grabowski helping a student hold off a large piece of art.

Meet a professor

University Teaching Award winners