November 2015

Celebrating 40 years: Elizabeth “Pepper” Dowd Carolina Scholars– Where are they now?

Daniel Reeves ’07, an economics and political science major, from Purlear, N.C., was the first Dowd Scholar at Carolina. He is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in economics at Cornell University. His research interests focus on the intersection of behavioral economics and public finance. Daniel’s research includes taking insights from psychology and economic models to

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Celebrating 40 years: The Margaret Rose Tennille Fund for Classics

In 1992, five members of the Tennille family established an endowment in the classics department honoring Margaret Rose Tennille (1917-2014). Margaret Rose was born in Hopewell, Virginia, in March 1917.  When she was six years old, her family moved to Winston-Salem, where she later attended Salem College for two years. In 1939, she married Norton

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