“Public Universities, the Humanities and Education in North Carolina” will be the focus of a free special event Oct. 10 sponsored by the Program in the Humanities and Human Values in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, co-founder of the Deshpande Foundation, president and chairman of Sparta Group, LLC, chairman of Tejas Networks and serial entrepreneur, visited Carolina in early September to speak with students in the College of Arts and Science’s Introduction to Entrepreneurship class. While he was on campus, Deshpande shared his thoughts on how universities fit into
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The Graduate School’s Royster Society of Fellows attracts exceptionally talented graduate students from around the world. Many of them pursue graduate studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Meet the new Royster Fellows: Exceptional Carolina graduate students Read More »
The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi recognized three faculty members for their excellence in teaching. All three have advanced degrees from Carolina.
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Beloved North Carolina author will receive prize named in honor of UNC alumnus Thomas Wolfe, author of ‘Look Homeward, Angel’
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“Nanotechnology is a driving force behind scientific innovations that can range from the electronics in smartphones to new types of medical treatments,” said UNC chemist Jim Cahoon, co-principal investigator of the NSF grant.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members Lawrence E. Band and Hans W. Paerl were named to the prestigious American Geophysical Union (AGU) Class of 2015 Fellows. Band and Paerl are among 60 individuals from around the world who will be recognized at the AGU fall meeting Dec. 16 in San Francisco, Calif.
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Andrew Royce Bauer, a senior Honors student in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, has been selected to participate in the Canada-based Killam Fellowships Program administered by Fulbright Canada.
UNC student earns Killam Fellowship for study in Québec Read More »
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $2.3M to the Two Blades Foundation (2Blades), a charitable organization that supports the development of durable disease resistance in crop plants. UNC biologist Jeff Dangl is part of the research teams that will investigate plant immunity in the United States and Europe.
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In 1915, former UNC President Kemp Plummer Battle sent a mysterious box to the North Carolina Historical Society. It contained a Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog from that year and instructions to members of the University community to use that catalog in order to reflect on changes in society both fifty and a hundred years later.
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