February 2014

UNC music scholar Mark Katz tapped as new IAH director

Mark Katz, professor and chair of the department of music and adjunct professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Sociology scholar to lead Carolina Seminars Program

Andrew Perrin, an associate professor of sociology, has been named the new director of the Carolina Seminars Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Perrin succeeds James Peacock, Kenan Professor of Anthropology.

UNC alumnus awarded 2014-2015 Churchill Scholarship

Surojit “Surge” Biswas, a May 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received a 2014-2015 Churchill Scholarship, valued at $62,000, for graduate work at the University of Cambridge in England.