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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.
“I believe that the essence of critical interaction and civil discourse is intellectual exchange, and that that’s a fundamentally creative endeavor."
“If you practice mindfulness, you can learn to be in the present more often."
“We produce analytical suggestions for the data, and our methodologists are making assumptions. We need to know what the clinical team is thinking about so we can modify the process to make our predictions more intelligent and acceptable for the medical world. It’s a feedback loop.”
“In this space, I just see the culture getting stronger and tighter by the premise of us writing songs together. I always wished I had a space on my campus where I could just go and play my music loud for the first time.”
“I still find it exciting to work with these plant puzzles. They’re some of the biggest and hardest puzzles out there.”
"I get to take 6-year-olds to a college where they can go one day. This sets the foundation for them to know this learning, reading and work are worth it.”
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.

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.

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.

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.

Selected from 588 nominations, the winners are skilled instructors and “true champions of the student.”
For their excellence in educating undergraduate students, the teaching assistants receive a one-time stipend of $5,000.
Four receive Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction.
Learn how the winners of the Board of Governors, Mentor, Friday and Sitterson awards show creativity in teaching.
The winning instructors exhibit excellence in undergraduate teaching through their creativity.
Created in 1952, they honor excellence in teaching undergraduate students.