Donna Bickford will be the new associate director of the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) in the College of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2012.
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Jennifer Kosmin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a 2011-2012 Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to fund dissertation research in Italy. “Embodied Knowledge: Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Early Modern Italy” is the title of her Fulbright research proposal. Kosmin, of Chapel Hill, is a history doctoral candidate
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Morgan Abbott of Raleigh, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a John H. Barnhill Trailblazer Award from the North Carolina Campus Compact. Abbot was one of two students who received the award, which is presented to students who exemplify the ability to inspire a campus to address the issues
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A team of undergraduate students won honorable mention in a national competition based on the decision-making process of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Federal Reserve System’s monetary policy-setting body. The students on the Fed Challenge Team are advised by Michael Aguilar (Ph.D. ’08), a faculty member in the department of economics. The Fed
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Plants’ and animals’ seasonal cycles, such as flowering dates and migration patterns, have shifted in recent decades due to climate change. Now a new study seems to indicate that some human weather-related behavior also is being influenced by global warming. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found peak attendance in U.S.
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UNC humanities students who have dreamed of studying at Oxford University in the United Kingdom can now apply for a one-term scholarship to do so, beginning in October 2012. St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University is seeking applications for the first annual Christopher Mead Armitage and Pauline Brooks Armitage Scholarship for Visiting Students. The application deadline is
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People on Carolina’s bustling campus have been walking over history – literally – for two centuries. With the discovery of pieces of English-manufactured and locally made china plates dating to the early 1800s as well as glass, brick fragments and bits of animal bones unearthed beside Vance Hall, University researchers believe they have discovered the
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Ai “Anna” Lam, MD, who graduated from the College with an undergraduate degree in biology in 1996, is the recipient of an American Thoracic Society (ATS) Foundation/Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago Research Grant. Lam is currently an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The grant provides $40,000 in funding per
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As we head into the holiday season, you will find plenty of concerts, plays, films and talks on our December calendar. Nov. 30- Dec. 18: PlayMakers presents Edward Albee’s knock-down, drag-out love story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, starring Ray Dooley and Julie Fishell as George and Martha. Tickets and schedule, 919.962.7529. http://playmakersrep.org Dec. 1:
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It may seem unorthodox for a geologist, a male one at that, to write a history of women’s higher education, but the retired professor who was on the Carolina faculty from 1975 to 1997 soon explains his interest.
