New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will speak, and he and four other luminaries will receive honorary degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the May 13 Commencement ceremony.
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Five academic advisers in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have won 2012 national advising awards for making significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising. The awards will be presented by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) at its annual conference in Nashville, Tenn., Oct.
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Gregory “G.A.” Lipton, a doctoral candidate in religious studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences who are addressing questions of ethical and religious values.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill department of dramatic art will present a second staged reading of “8,” a new play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, in partnership with Raleigh Little Theatre.
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UNC Music Professor Jocelyn Neal, co-editor of the journal Southern Cultures and a scholar of commercial country music and American popular music, has been appointed director of the Center for the Study of the American South, effective July 1, 2012.
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Thomas J. Meyer, a chemist and pioneer in the field of solar energy research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will receive the Porter Medal, the most significant international award in photochemistry.
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Studio art majors who will graduate in May, August and December 2012 will display their work in 219 Hanes Art Center from May 7-13. In this exhibition, graduating seniors will reflect on their time spent at Carolina. A broad range of works will be exhibited, representing nearly every artistic medium.
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Part Swiss army knife, part compass: that’s Greg Gangi. For Carolina undergraduates majoring in the environment, the professor fills a variety of invaluable roles.
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The Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society held its Induction Ceremony and Reception on April 9. Two chemistry students in the College of Arts and Sciences, Michael Bertucci and James Grinias, were among the new inductees. The Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society is dedicated solely to graduate and
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Since 1999, Quercia and others at the Center for Community Capital have been tracking how people with low incomes do when they get 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages from lenders who evaluate their applications carefully and don’t qualify them for more than they can handle.
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