Sasha Seymore, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior, and Thomas Golden, a 2011 graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill, have been named recipients of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which supports graduate studies in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Sarah M. Bufkin of Atlanta, a 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received a Rhodes Scholarship, the world’s oldest and best known awards for graduate study.
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Karen M. Gil, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced that she has decided to step down at the end of the academic year to return to teaching in the department of psychology.
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Nov. 19, 2014 Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues, There is never a “best” time to leave a job that you love. I am writing to let you know that I have decided to step down as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the end of the current academic year. This is the
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November 19, 2014 Dear College Faculty and Staff: Following Dean Karen Gil’s message to you earlier today, I am writing to express my own message of gratitude and admiration for Dean Gil. Over the past year, as a member of my Cabinet representing our largest academic department, Dean Gil has done a great job helping
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“Johnny Johnson” is a play written by Paul Green with music by Kurt Weill. It is part of the campuswide “A Year-Long Conversation: World War I – The Legacy” sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and College of Arts and Sciences. The show runs Nov. 20-24.
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Researchers in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and at Northeastern University have revealed a much more complex and nuanced picture of the impact of climate change on corals: Moderate increases in ocean acidification and warming surprisingly appears to benefit corals, while extreme changes harm them.
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Musicologist Annegret Fauser of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences has won two major awards for her book, “Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II” (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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Nine recently selected Phillips Ambassadors were honored at the annual Phillips Ambassadors fall dinner, held at the Carolina Inn on Nov. 4. The students, all University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduates, were awarded a $5,000 scholarship each for study abroad in Asia during the Spring 2015 semester. The students will be studying throughout Asia, including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Thailand.
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When she was in second grade, Anna Atencio’s parents gave her a microscope. “I don’t think I ever put it down,” she says. “I always wanted to be a scientist—right from the start. I had no idea that you could grow up to be something that didn’t involve science.” Atencio is now a sophomore at UNC, majoring
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