Sometime in the next few months, a paper written by Chengteh Lee, Weitao Yang and Robert G. Parr of UNC’s chemistry department is about to exceed 40,000 citations in both the World of Science and Google Scholar databases.
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Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been elected to the board of directors of ARTS North Carolina. She also has been appointed to the executive committee, which advises the board in strategic planning and setting goals and priorities. PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences
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A $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will expand digital humanities in a transformative way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the hiring of new faculty and the support of graduate students in this emerging field.
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UNC computer science alumnus Greg Turk (Ph.D. ’92) will receive the 2012 Computer Graphics Achievement Award from ACM SIGGRAPH at its annual conference in August. The award recognizes Turk for his contributions to physically inspired mathematical application in graphics, particularly his work on texture synthesis, geometric modeling and physical simulation involving thin structures. Much of
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As part of his work as co-director of the Galapagos Science Center, a research facility UNC shares with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador, Steve Walsh has been giving presentations at universities around the world about the Galapagos.
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Paul Stapleton, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has won a Pushcart Prize for Fiction for his short story, “The Fall of Punicea.” The story was published in the spring 2011 edition of J Journal: New Writing on Justice, the literary journal of John Jay College of Criminal
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A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. The excavations are being conducted by Jodi Magness of UNC and colleagues at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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