Four highly promising faculty members in diverse fields in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty.
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Join PlayMakers Repertory Company for a special matinee performance of “Detroit ’67,” a gripping play that explores the themes of racial relations and social justice, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1. The performance will be followed by a Carolina Conversation, “Detroit ’67 to Charlotte ’16.”
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New Roots/Nuevas Raíces: Voices from Carolina del Norte has received the 2016 Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award in the major projects category from the Oral History Association (OHA), an organization committed to the development of oral history. The award, which recognizes outstanding oral history projects, will be presented to New Roots at the Oral History Association’s annual
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When Katy Clune arrived at Carolina for graduate folklore studies two years ago, she intended to weave together her interests in Southeast Asia and textiles. She had spent her childhood in Indonesia and worked most recently at the Textile Museum at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Once in Chapel Hill, she began seeking information
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John McGowan, the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English and comparative literature, is the 2016 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) Fellow.
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Former UNC doctoral student Andrew Flory, now an assistant professor of music at Carleton College, is an expert in rhythm and blues music. His particular focus is the music of Motown, and he has a book coming out in summer 2017 titled “I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B.” The UNC Graduate School recently spoke with Flory about how his graduate education in musicology prepared him for a career that is hitting all the right notes.
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Kenan Professor of Sociology Howard Aldrich includes BeAM@MURRAY HALL in his Sociology 89H course, “Rationalization and the Changing Nature of Social Life in 21st Century America,” combining a week-long visit with the underlying course theme on the effect of technological change on the process of rationalization in modern society.
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Biologist Amy Gladfelter of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar, a designation awarded to “early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field.”
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If you get excited about creative applications for digital imaging, design, web and video, then mark September 19 on your calendar.
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As schools move further and further away from cities, the cost of busing continues to skyrocket — but UNC city and regional planning chair Noreen McDonald hopes to change that.
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