NOTE: LOCATION HAS BEEN MOVED TO FED EX GLOBAL EDUCATION CENTER. Seven experts on democratization and the Arab world will participate in a panel discussion on the Arab Spring at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public program will be in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at […]
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“From the Renaissance to the Modern World: A Symposium in Honor of John Headley” is the title of free public programs Friday and Saturday (Nov. 11, 12) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The symposium honors John Headley, professor emeritus of history, who taught at UNC for 47 years until his recent
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Annegret Fauser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association (RMA). It is one of the highest international honors a musicologist can receive. Fauser, a professor of music and adjunct professor of women’s studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, is the 50th
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It’s gospel music day in professor Louise Toppin’s class, “Music as Culture: The Music of African-Americans.” The course is a survey of the music of African-Americans from its roots in Africa to hip-hop, through the lens of the classical composer.
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Judy Adamson learned to sew at age 10 at the hand of her mother on an Iowa farm. Adamson still remembers her first garment, a border-print, gathered skirt. Fast-forward to her college days, when she majored in speech and theater and eventually got hired by Barbara Matera Ltd., one of the foremost costume houses in
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When second-year graduate student Adrienne Corral dons her neoprene yellow apron, goggles and shoulder-length black gloves, she looks a bit like a scientist in a lab. Steam is rising from a 60-gallon vat of boiling water, which she has turned kelly green for the occasion.
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Peter Sherwood, Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture, was recognized by the International Association for Hungarian Studies (IAHS) with the János Lotz medal for promoting Hungarian studies abroad. The IAHS was established in 1977 for Hungarian scholars, both within and outside the country. Its duties include publishing an English-language journal, Hungarian
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Room 208 in Phillips Hall is no longer an ordinary teaching laboratory. Gone are the cramped aisles with chairs and tables configured in a traditional manner. Instead, students sit at large round tables for labs.
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Lloyd Kramer, Ph.D., professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will read from his new book in the Bull’s Head Bookshop at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 10. The shop is in the UNC Student Stores off South Road; the reading will be free to the public. The
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Three undergraduate students in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences are among six selected by social change organization Frontline Solutions for fellowships this summer. Micah Gilmer, a partner in Frontline Solutions and the social entrepreneur in residence in the department of public policy, helped to spearhead the program. The Hilliard P. Jenkins (HPJ) Undergraduate Fellowship Program,
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