November 2014

Two College students win NC Women’s Fellowships

Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, Alison Domonoske ’15 and Josh King ’14, were awarded the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Fellowship awards by the advocacy organization WomenNC. Founded in 2009, WomenNC is a non-profit organization focused on leading North Carolina’s youth in the elimination of injustice against …

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UNC Hosts King’s College London’s Newman

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Nov. 4 welcomed Joanna Newman, vice-principal (international) at King’s College London, for her first visit to Chapel Hill. Newman was joined by Chris Payne, head of the King’s USA Office. Chancellor Carol L. Folt, who visited King’s in March to formally extend the schools’ partnership, welcomed the delegation at the FedEx Global Education Center.

Staff Spotlight: Ryan Comfort ’14 (M.A.)

If you ask Ryan Comfort how he went from earning a master’s degree in journalism/mass communication to a post in academic advising in the College of Arts and Sciences, he would tell you it was purely academic. Comfort came to Chapel Hill on a Park Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served students in recruiting, advising, retention and curriculum development in the School of Education.

The Henry Owl Scholarship and a class in ‘Gumption’

Critical thinking is the magic of the classroom: Facts go in, contemplation ensues and voila: perspective emerges. Undergraduate history major Andrew Vail ’99 listened as professor Theda Perdue lectured on the marginalization of Native Americans in the southeastern United States. Education became the impetus. “I recall being in Dr. Perdue’s class and learning about these …

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Sororities create professorships to recruit, retain faculty

Alumnae from three sororities have each created new professorships in the College of Arts and Sciences after meeting their initial fundraising goals in summer 2014. After countless mailings, receptions and conversations, the multi-year effort drew gifts totaling $1.7 million for distinguished professorships to be named for Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. More …

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Geology gift aids professor in research of Alaskan rivers

As a master’s student in geological sciences at Carolina in the early 1980s, Elijah White (M.S. ’84) studied under UNC geology faculty legends John Dennison, Roy Ingram and Walter Wheeler. White says that his experiences with these esteemed faculty members represent some of his best memories of UNC and helped inspire him to give back …

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