Cultural historian Bernie Herman is helping to preserve and cultivate the foodways of a special Virginia coastal community.
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UNC researchers are finding there’s more beneath the surface of the BP oil spill.
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Water. Life depends on it, and starting this fall the Carolina campus is becoming immersed in it. On World Water Day last spring, UNC announced that water would be the focus of a two-year, campuswide academic theme called “Water in Our World.”
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Jean DeSaix has taught about 800 students in each of her nearly 40 years at Carolina. She was recently recognized for long-term contributions to teaching and mentoring.
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UNC friends are helping to preserve and promote the whimsical windmills of beloved North Carolina folk artist Vollis Simpson. (WATCH VIDEO)
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As UNC kicks off a new, two-year academic theme around water, we asked Larry Band to break down the top five water worries for North Carolina and the world. Band is director of UNC’s Institute for the Environment and the Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor of Geography.
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Sidney Rittenberg ’41 spent 16 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail, imprisoned twice by the Communists on charges of being an American spy. It’s the stuff great films are made of; only this story is true. “The Revolutionary” is a documentary film about the UNC alum’s life story.
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Author and professor Bland Simpson will read from his latest book, “Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 13) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the Carolina captains is Grandy, who was born a slave in
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When Jonathan Boyarin started attending Stanton Street Shul, a small Manhattan synagogue, he and his wife were two of the youngest members. Over its hundred-year history, the narrow building at 180 Stanton Street has been a home base for several generations of Jewish immigrants and children of immigrants.
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Writer Josephine Humphreys, whose fiction draws from the South Carolina lowlands where she was born and bred, will receive the 2012 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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