Louise Toppin, professor and chair of the music department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received the Legacy Award from the National Opera Association. The award recognizes the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in professional opera and honors individuals who have made significant contributions toward that goal. Toppin is an internationally acclaimed […]
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Bliss Green-Morehead ’15 of Charlotte, North Carolina, is double-majoring in Chinese and German Language and Literature and pursuing a minor in Korean. In the summer of 2014, Green-Morehead studied in Seoul in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), as a Phillips Ambassador, a signature study abroad program.
Global Heels: Bliss Green-Morehead, Phillips Ambassador Read More »
Biologist Kerry Bloom studies minute details of the way cells divide. Now, using a 3-D printer at the UNC Kenan Science Library’s Makerspace, Bloom and his colleagues study the microscopic world on a human scale.
Square Hole? Make a Square Peg. Read More »
Changing the surface charge of a PRINT nanoparticle may give researchers a way forward to develop vaccines for diseases that target the lungs.
New approach may lead to inhalable vaccines for influenza, pneumonia Read More »
Researchers in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and at Stanford University find teens are influenced by “caricatures” of their peers’ sexual and drug-use behaviors.
Misfit or Miss Goody Two Shoes? Adolescent misperceptions abound Read More »
PlayMakers Repertory Company continues its main-stage season Jan. 21-Feb. 8 with a scathingly funny backstage drama, “Trouble in Mind.” Listen to a new podcast featuring members of the show.
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James Williams, an Asian Studies and economics double major as well as a Phillips Ambassador, has been named one of the “25 under 25 in U.S. and China Relations,” a list published by Yale’s China Hands. James’s essay, “Rethinking China’s ‘Exploitation’ of Africa” appears in the fall 2014 issue of the China Hands journal. In
The Study Abroad Office in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which offers students more than 325 programs worldwide, has recently announced new programs in regions ranging from Argentina to Russia. New programs are listed below by location and first semester of offering. UNC Jewish Studies
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Oysters may be one of North Carolina’s most important organisms. They filter the water, their shells provide habitats for other organisms, and they can help slow the process of erosion. But can they do all those things even when they’re regularly being harvested for food?
Can we have our oysters and eat them too? Read More »
UNC 2010 computer science alumni Calvin Young was featured recently by Forbes magazine in the 30 Under 30 2015 in Consumer Tech who are turning your smartphone into life’s remote control.
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