Two doctoral graduates, representing the fields of history and cell and molecular physiology, will be the featured speakers at the second annual Sequoyah Distinguished Lecture on March 22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public event will be held at 7 p.m. at Alumni Hall I of the George Watts […]
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Climate change, navigation lanes, sovereignty and resource extraction in the Arctic are subject to growing international attention. Now, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is drawing the debate into the limelight at a conference on March 28 to address the region’s future. Experts on the countries with the longest Arctic coastlines will convene
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In his own words, UNC chemist Brian Hogan calls himself a “crazy scientist who wanted to build a school in Guatemala.” This is a story of how one man with an idea really can change the world. It’s also a story about how Carolina is helping him to do just that.
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The College of Arts and Sciences’ graduate program in clinical psychology tied for second place in the latest rankings of graduate degree programs recently released by U.S. News & World Report magazine. UNC appears on multiple lists of schools, degree programs and specialty areas newly ranked in 2012 for the magazine’s 2013 edition of “America’s
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PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will conclude its 2011-2012 main-stage season with the uproarious British comedy “Noises Off” April 4-22.
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In every baby’s brain, there’s a building boom. … Neuroscientist Carol Cheatham is working to find out exactly how the nutrients a mom passes on to her baby — first through the placenta and later through her breast milk or in formula — can affect brain power for life.
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Asia experts James Fallows and Orville Schell will discuss China’s unprecedented economic boom in a talk April 9 at UNC. The free public program, “China Rising: What does China’s unprecedented boom mean for the global economy, U.S. foreign policy, human rights and the environment?” will be at 5:30 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center.
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North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC-FM, a service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will explore a new collection of never-before-heard interviews about the Civil Rights Movement. Each Friday morning in March, WUNC’s Eric Hodge will be joined on “Morning Edition” by Seth Kotch from the Southern Oral History Program at UNC’s
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Listening to a history lecture in a large lecture hall might make some students yawn, unless they’re in Professor Joseph Glatthaar’s “War and American Society Since 1902.” “History is an incredibly powerful force that affects people’s lives every day,” he said.
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Jean DeSaix, a senior lecturer in the biology department in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the faculty-to-student mentoring award from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council.
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