University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC
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    350 faculty · 1,155 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Computer Science40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 29.3 #27 of 88 in Computer Science
    Anderson, James, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department Chair h-index 66
    Notable: “MECHANICAL DEVICES FOR ARTERIAL OCCLUSION” (1975) · 399 citations
    Fuchs, Henry, Federico Gil Distinguished Professor h-index 63
    Notable: “The office of the future” (1998) · 833 citations
    Bansal, Mohit, John R. and Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor h-index 61
    Notable: “LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers” (2019) · 2,266 citations
    Berg, Tamara L., Adjunct Associate Professor h-index 50
    Notable: “Labeled Faces in the Wild: A Database forStudying Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments” (2008) · 4,513 citations
    Courses: First-Year Seminar: Everyday Computing · First-Year Seminar: Robotics with LEGO · First-Year Seminar: Folding, from Paper to Proteins · First-Year Seminar: Special Topics · Introduction to Programming · Introduction to Scientific Programming +34 more
    Biology40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 39.8 #4 of 68 in Biology
    Jones, Corbin, Professor h-index 109
    Notable: “Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma” (2014) · 3,075 citations
    Kieber, Joseph, Kenan Distinguished Professor h-index 79
    Notable: “CTR1, a negative regulator of the ethylene response pathway in arabidopsis, encodes a member of the Raf family of protein kinases” (1993) · 1,953 citations
    Marzluff, William F., William Rand Kenan Professor h-index 72
    Notable: “Circular RNAs are abundant, conserved, and associated with ALU repeats” (2012) · 4,558 citations
    Bruno, John, Chi Omega Distinguished Professor h-index 66
    Notable: “A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems” (2008) · 6,452 citations
    Courses: First-Year Seminar: Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Foods to the Sequence of the Human Genome · First-Year Seminar: The Roots and Flowering of Civilization: A Seminar on Plants and People · First-Year Seminar: Detecting the Future: Human Diseases and Genetic Tests · First-Year Seminar: Unsolved Problems in the Genomic Age · First-Year Seminar: Sea Turtles: A Case Study in the Biology of Conservation · First-Year Seminar: Mountains Beyond Mountains: Infectious Disease in the Developing World +34 more
    Economics40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 21.6 #38 of 104 in Economics
    Ghysels, Eric, Bernstein Distinguished Professor h-index 66
    Notable: “Stock Market Volatility and Macroeconomic Fundamentals” (2012) · 1,108 citations
    Duarte, Marco, Assistant Professor h-index 64
    Antitrust Economics , Industrial Organization Department of Economics Gardner Hall CB 3305 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    Notable: “Evaluation of Radiopacity, pH, Release of Calcium Ions, and Flow of a Bioceramic Root Canal Sealer” (2012) · 385 citations
    Hansen, Peter R., Latane Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 38
    Economics Department of Economics Gardner Hall CB 3305 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    Notable: “A forecast comparison of volatility models: does anything beat a GARCH(1,1)?” (2005) · 1,751 citations
    Chao, Ying, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 36
    Labor economics , Macroeconomics Department of Economics Gardner Hall CB 3305 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    Notable: “Highly Stretchable, Adhesive, Biocompatible, and Antibacterial Hydrogel Dressings for Wound Healing” (2021) · 597 citations
    Courses: First-Year Seminar: The Entrepreneurial Imagination · First-Year Seminar: Economics of Sports · First-Year Seminar: Entrepreneurship: Asia and the West · First-Year Seminar: Constructing Your Own Venture · First-Year Seminar: Researching the Tools for Success · First Year Seminar: Special Topics +34 more
    Government40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 22.8 #12 of 100 in Political Science
    Marks, Gary, Distinguished Professor of Political Science h-index 64
    Notable: “A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus” (2008) · 3,069 citations
    Hooghe, Liesbet, W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science h-index 63
    Notable: “A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus” (2008) · 3,069 citations
    Baumgartner, Frank, Distinguished Professor of Political Science h-index 56
    Notable: “Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems” (1991) · 1,124 citations
    O'Brian, Neil, Assistant Professor h-index 54
    Notable: “Integrative regulation of human brain blood flow” (2014) · 858 citations
    Courses: First-Year Seminar: Movies and Politics · First-Year Seminar: Friendship in Political Thought · First-Year Seminar: Democratic Governance in Contemporary Latin America · First-Year Seminar: Revolution, America in 1776 and France in 1789 · First-Year Seminar: Social Movements and Political Protest and Violence · First-Year Seminar: The United States and the European Union: Partners or Rivals? +34 more
    Business Administration32 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 22.3 #3 of 59 in Business Administration
    Bushman, Robert, Forensic Accounting Distinguished Professor h-index 46
    Banking Boards of directors Capital Markets Capital Structure Compensation Corporate governance Financial accounting Forensic accounting Insider trading Media News & Research More News The art of depicting economic reality An unlikely path
    Notable: “Financial accounting information and corporate governance” (2001) · 2,316 citations
    Bayus, Barry, Roy O. Rodwell Distinguished Professor of Marketing h-index 44
    Of Barry Bayus. His recent research is concerned with issues such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding new product ideas, the creation and evolution of innovative products and services, and marketing strategies for startups in a new market. Th
    Notable: “Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas over Time: An Analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community” (2012) · 907 citations
    Brown, Gregory, Van and Kay Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor of Finance h-index 33
    Capital Markets Capital Structure Derivatives Finance Hedge funds Portfolio management Private capital Private equity Risk management News & Research More News In other news: November 2025 We celebrate our October graduates, welcome MrBeast
    Notable: “Investor sentiment and the near-term stock market” (2003) · 1,333 citations
    Chari, Anusha, Professor of Economics, Adjunct Professor of Finance h-index 31
    International Finance Department of Economics Gardner Hall CB 3305 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    Notable: “Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time” (2020) · 422 citations
    Courses: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics · Introduction to Business: People, Profits, Planet · Exploring the Intersection of Business and Society · Foundations of Leadership: Discovering Your Strengths · Introduction to Careers in Business · Business Topics +34 more
    Neuroscience31 faculty avg h-index 31.5 #19 of 41 in Neuroscience
    Williams, Morika D., Assistant Professor h-index 98
    My research focuses on behavioral neuroscience and the mechanisms of neurobiology and neurophysiology of pain processing, with a special emphasis on the newborn. The ultimate research goal is to better understand, recognize, and alleviate p
    Snider, William D., Professor and Founding Director h-index 75
    Ed on roles the neurotrophin family of growth factors and their signaling mediators in neural development. My laboratory was continuously funded by the NIH for more than 30 years. A full publication list can be found at:
    Notable: “Functions of the neurotrophins during nervous system development: What the knockouts are teaching us” (1994) · 1,430 citations
    Stein, Jason, Associate Professor h-index 58
    Notable: “De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism” (2012) · 2,163 citations
    Heinzen, Erin, Associate Professor h-index 54
    Notable: “Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance” (2009) · 3,520 citations

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC reports an overall acceptance rate of 18.7%, an early-round acceptance rate of 16.0%, an SAT middle 50% of 1360–1520, a class size of 4,699, and a yield of 46.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Flagship NC public. Strong business (Kenan-Flagler) and journalism schools. In-state advantage.