Emily Orland

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DTH Photo Illustration. North Carolina State Superintendent Mark Johnson announced that the state Department of Public Instruction is making changes to standardized tests, making the tests shorter to help ease the strain on students and teachers.

Here's how loosened admission requirements affect UNC System applicants

The UNC System has a new SAT/ACT/GPA requirement for high school seniors applying to institutions. Here's how it could impact UNC-Chapel Hill and other UNC System schools.

Alana Harned, a sophomore exercise and sport science major at UNC-Chapel Hill, uses the 3D printers at Murray Hall's BeAM makerspace to make a baby Yoda as a gift for her friend on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.

UNC Makerspaces are helping fight against medical supply shortages due to COVID-19

By Emily Orland

UNC's Makerspaces are teaming up with UNC Health to help fight the shortage of medical supplies due to COVID-19.

First-year Jade Henderson studies for her upcoming Intermediate Written Chinese midterm in Davis Library on Tuesday Feb. 25, 2020.

Don't let midterms get you down — here's how to prioritize your mental health

By Emily Orland

“I just think the increase in academic stress causes whatever else is creating a disturbance to rise to the surface."

UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School has created a new orientation for all students newly admitted to the undergraduate business program called Spark. The new program facilitates interaction between new students in order to better promote collaboration and community in a way that the prior orientation, Engage, did not.

Here's what you need to know about Kenan-Flagler's newest master's concentration

By Emily Orland

Kenan-Flagler is introducing a new STEM-based concentration to its MBA program for Business Analytics and Management Science.

North Carolina Sen. Erica Smith, D-District 3, talks about why she is running for U.S. Senate this year in the Stone Center during the UNC Black Student Movement's Black Women Lead event on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. "Black women are the most underrepresented in every institution," Smith said.

'Everyone deserves to be represented': BSM event celebrates Black women in politics

By Emily Orland

N.C. Senator and candidate for the U.S. Senate spoke Monday night at the Black Women Lead event on campus, along with other female politicians. The Black Student Movement hosted the event as a way to shed light on Black women that are leaders in North Carolina politics.

DTH Photo Illustration. Under new federal legislation, the minimum age to purchase tobacco and vape products has increased from 18 to 21.

Student Juulers under 21 react to new nicotine legislation

By Emily Orland

Now that people must be older than 21 to purchase nicotine or vape products, some students under the age limit are using less, while others are finding new ways to purchase the products.

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz (center) and other campus leaders speak onstage in the Genome Sciences Building during the 2020 Summit on Safety and Belonging. The Summit addressed six key aspects of the campus climate, according to conversation and research: police behavior, sexual violence and danger, communications and Alert Carolina, physical safety, anti-racist activism and safety of marginalized communities.

"It can't be business as usual": Commission gives Guskiewicz campus safety solutions

By Emily Orland

“We want to change from simply listening and acknowledging, and we don’t want to wallow in our harm. We want to move forward and come up with some ideas and reforms and innovations that will let us move to a new place.”

Jake Richard, a junior media and journalism major, and Sarah Ouslander, a sophomore biochemistry major, present to students in the Student Union on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Richard leads UNC Students for Bernie, an organization that supports Bernie Sanders.

Meet the UNC students working on Democratic presidential campaigns

By Emily Orland

With the Democratic primary season in full swing and the 2020 presidential election quickly approaching, hear from some UNC students on what compelled them to take their political participation to the next level and volunteer for the campaigns of their preferred candidates.

Police officers put on riot gear during the demonstration against the decision to place Silent Sam in a new historic building on campus on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.

Here's how on-campus crime and safety have changed over the past ten years

By Emily Orland

Here's how campus and Chapel Hill police have reacted to the changes in campus crime, and where they see potential concerns.

Minister Robert Campbell speaks with Journalist Mike Ogle and shares stories of growing up in a segregated Chapel Hill with his childhood friend, James Cates. The Center for the Study of the American South held a panel honoring Cates's life and untimely murder in Hyde Hall on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019.

Community comes together to remember the often-forgotten murder of James Cates

By Emily Orland

The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition and The Center for Study of the American South co-hosted an event at the University on Thursday to discuss the implications of the murder of James Lewis Cates — a Black UNC student who was murdered on campus in 1970 by a white supremacist biker gang.