Arts and Sciences Foundation buys former Chapel Hill Library
The old Chapel Hill Public Library will become the new home of the Arts & Sciences Foundation in late 2016, once renovations are complete.
June 2015
Warrior Scholars at Carolina: Preparing for the next chapter
Duffle bags in hand, 14 active-duty and recently separated military members arrived last weekend on Carolina’s campus for a boot camp designed to prepare them for their next mission: college.
75 years of unearthing N.C.’s past
If your idea of an archaeological dig features a bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing Indiana Jones rescuing precious artifacts from greedy thieves, you might want to go easy on the movie popcorn.
UNC launches Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence
The initiative led by UNC-Chapel Hill will include collaboration with more than a dozen partner universities to address the unique challenges facing communities across the United States that are vulnerable to coastal hazards.
The art of surgery: Cary Levine on the intersection of art and science
It’s seven a.m. on a spring morning, and associate professor of art Cary Levine is at UNC’s Memorial Hospital, delivering an early morning lecture to an unexpected crowd — UNC medical students.
PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory to perform ‘Guys & Dolls’
A cast of high school actors from 14 Triangle-area schools will perform the Tony Award-winning musical “Guys & Dolls” July 15-25 for the PlayMakers Summer Youth Conservatory (SYC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. High school actors and technicians began work on the production June 15.
“The Real Americans” completes PlayMakers’ new season lineup
“The Real Americans,” written and performed by Dan Hoyle, will round out PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 2015-2016 season April 27-May 1, 2016.
Mapping the Route to ‘Go Anywhere’
What do you want to be when you grow up? Banker, physician, college professor? Adventurous, self-reliant, creative? The Go Anywhere Initiative, a partnership between Honors Carolina and University Career Services, helps students explore not only what they want to do, but who they want to be — to discover a life well-lived. “Go Anywhere helps …
$5 million gift will create dean’s ‘say yes’ fund
The College of Arts and Sciences has received a $5 million gift to provide Dean Karen M. Gil with “say yes” funds that empower department chairs to be agile, responsive and innovative. The gift, from an anonymous alumni couple, will create a new $4 million academic leadership endowment and provide an additional $1 million — …
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Rebuilding the world’s most beloved landmarks in six days
A new process constructs 12,903 3D models from 100 million crowd-sourced photos thanks to a partnership between URC Ventures and the department of computer science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.