Meet Laura Crook: A Current BA/MA Student
By: Baylee Materia Laura Crook arrived at UNC-CH as a pre-med student with a passion for English on the side. She never would have imagined, her freshman year, that four years later she would be combining her distinctive academic interests … Read more
Tua Tagovailoa’s Injury and What it Tells Us About Concussion in Sports
By Katy Waddell What Happened to Miami Dolphins’ Quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa In week three of the National Football League’s regular season, Tua Tagovailoa, the starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, took two hard hits to the head, leaving him … Read more
Discovering my Passions for the Health Humanities in ENGL 71H: Healers and Patients
When reflecting on my freshman year at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, ENGL 71H was easily my academic highlight. Entitled “Healers and Patients,” Dr. Kym Weed’s first year seminar takes a deep dive into the relationships individuals form with … Read more
Maya Groff on Drs. Cindy Weinstein and Bruce Miller’s Grand Rounds
By Maya Groff We often think of the world in opposites: morning and night, good and bad, left brain and right brain, life and death. We separate the world into dichotomies in order to make it more navigable, often thinking … Read more
Navigating Foreign Atmospheres : Cathy Choi’s “No Space for Trash from Aliens”
In the fall of 2021, Dr. Kym Weed’s course ENGL 763: Intro to Health Humanities allured some of UNC’s sharpest and most dedicated students. Cathy Choi, a recent alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was one … Read more
Alumni Spotlight: Katie Huber, MA
By Galilee Ambellu Katie Huber is a double Tar Heel, who currently works as a policy analyst at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. During her undergraduate career, Katie double majored in Interdisciplinary Studies and Anthropology. In an attempt to … Read more
Gargi Dixit on Asian American Mental Health Discussion
By Gargi Dixit An Asian American Mental Health Discussion was held on February 16th, 2022, by the Asian American Center (AAC) at UNC-Chapel Hill. As Dr. Heidi Kim, the Director of the AAC, stated, the issue of mental health specific … Read more

