Three from UNC-Chapel Hill selected as 2016 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows
Aisha Saad ’09, Vishwajith Sridharan ’14, and Heidi Vuletich were recently selected as recipients of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
June 2016
PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory to perform musical ‘Violet’
High school thespians train with theater professionals in award-winning program. Show runs July 20-31.
UNC-Chapel Hill alumna named Ertegun Scholar
Jordan Maly-Preuss is one of 18 selected for the elite, University of Oxford graduate program in the humanities
Overusing social media as an adolescent may hurt your love life later on
A study by UNC psychologists shows the predominant use of social media may limit the opportunity to practice in-person conversations that are crucial for adolescents, particularly boys.
Carolina for Kibera co-founder Barcott awarded honorary degree from Dartmouth University
Carolina for Kibera co-founder Rye Barcott ’01 has been awarded an honorary degree by Dartmouth University.
Exploring silence as a vehicle of deeper thought
Senior Rukmini Deva is a SURF recipient and undergraduate researcher in biology, with a minor in religious studies. Her research focuses on monastic silence — a lifetime of voluntary commitment to silence and/or “stillness.”
$3.7 million gift endows the Karen M. Gil Internship Program in Psychology
In the fall of her senior year, Liz Bailey ’15 of Raleigh had job offers in sales and consulting, but she didn’t think they’d make the best use of her psychology and chemistry majors. “I didn’t see myself thriving in these positions,” she said. “I had never been exposed to what a career in psychology …
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A love of Carolina basketball and poetry: Endowed professorship honors ’57 championship team, donor’s wife
When Bob Young and Lennie Rosenbluth came from their native New York City to Carolina — as recruits for a team destined to become 1957 basketball national champions — they dined on some strange concoctions. “We had Southern fried chicken, turnip greens, hush puppies and things we’d never heard of,” said Young. “But it tasted …
Honoring a legend, marking a milestone
Editor’s note: F. Stuart Chapin Jr. died on May 2, 2016, just a month after celebrating his 100th birthday. When faculty, alumni and students gathered in April to mark the 70th anniversary of the department of city and regional planning, they also celebrated the 100th birthday of one of the department’s founding members, F. Stuart …
World premiere of ‘Draw the Circle’ to lead PlayMakers’ 2016-2017 lineup
Performer’s own funny, moving story of a Muslim-American family dealing with their daughter’s gender transition brings a human face to today’s headlines.