During the summer, faculty from different corners of campus come together to connect and share their writing. The faculty writing groups are an initiative of the Center for Faculty Excellence and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Bryan Giemza, an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the new director of the Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library.
The 2014 Summer Youth Conservatory brought high school students and the musical “Hairspray” to the PlayMakers Repertory Company stage July 16-20.
Nineteen undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and one Duke University undergraduate have been selected as UNC Phillips Ambassadors for summer and fall 2014 study abroad programs in Asia.
The free exhibit “Marvin Saltzman: Works from 1948” will open in the John and June Allcott Gallery in the Hanes Art Center on Aug. 4.
Recent Carolina graduate Taylor Price of Cary, N.C., was an environmental studies major and geography minor. She spent the fall 2013 semester at the Institute for the Environment’s Outer Banks Field Site (OBXFS).
Researchers say the United States should re-evaluate its immigration policy’s definition of skilled workers to include the informal skills of migrant workers.
A custom-made cocktail of microbes could increase crop yield, protect a plant from drought and fight off pests without using insecticide. But before agricultural biotechnology companies can start making microbe recipes, they need to know which microbes work best. That’s where UNC’s Jeff Dangl steps in.
UNC’s Carolina Population Center has received a five-year, $180 million award for its Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results (MEASURE) Evaluation project from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The award is the second largest ever received by UNC.
Arts Midwest in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced that PlayMakers Repertory Company is one of 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies nationwide to be awarded a grant as part of the Shakespeare in American Communities program.
