February 2018

Senior science major shares her passion for music with the community

Carolina senior Lindsay Player has been giving piano lessons to Matthew for four years through the student organization Musical Empowerment. They are pictured here holding a sign that says "Music Matters."

While UNC-Chapel Hill senior Lindsay Player ’18 balances a major in biology and a double minor in chemistry and neuroscience, she uses music as a way to enhance her performance in the lab. Player is senior co-president of Musical Empowerment.

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Fifty-seven graduate students receive fellowships to advance their scholarship and teaching

Campus scene of the Old Well created using a tilt-shift filter effect.

Fifty-seven graduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences have received fellowships funded by private support to advance their scholarship and teaching. Increasing support for graduate students has been a priority of Kevin Guskiewicz since he became dean in 2016.

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James Beard award-winning cookbook author is first of two artists-in-residence

Writer Ronni Lundy drove more than 4,000 miles in her 2005 Chevy Astro van to gather the stories and recipes of the people of Appalachia, the “home cooks and chefs, farmers and shop owners, curers and savers and preservers of both food and traditions.

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PPE minor: Where disciplines connect, leaders emerge

Fostering curiosity and developing the analytical tools to find solutions to difficult problems is what Carolina’s minor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) seeks to do. The combined study of these three disciplines — an idea launched by Oxford University in 1920 — aims to create an environment where philosophers, political scientists and economists can come together and complement each other’s skills.

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Kathryn Lofton to give 2018 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony keynote address

Kathryn Lofton, a critic of popular culture and historian of religion, will give the keynote address at UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2018 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. She received both her master’s and doctoral degrees in religious studies from the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Unsung Heroes strive to even out the playing field

Erica Wallace (left) and Jan Yopp will receive the MLK Unsung Hero award.

Erica Wallace is coordinator for peer mentoring and engagement in the Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Jan Johnson Yopp is a professor in the School of Media and Journalism and dean of Summer School for Academic Affairs. They are recipients of this year’s MLK Unsung Hero Awards.

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