Happy New Year. We hope our January College of Arts and Sciences calendar will help you get warmed up for all the good things that will be happening on campus this semester. Jan. 8-12: PlayMakers Repertory Company presents “The Story of the Gun,” about America’s relationship with guns, created and performed by Mike Daisey. Tickets […]
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Carolina’s minor in education has reached its enrollment goal nearly three years ahead of schedule, something School of Education DeanBill McDiarmid attributes to “Carolina’s deep reservoir of students interested in educational issues.”
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A book by Reid Barbour, a professor in UNC’s department of English and comparative literature, and his University of Oxford colleague David Norbrook has been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA). The book, Translation of Lucretius, volume 1 of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson (Oxford University Press) received an honorable mention for the MLA’s
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The University’s Board of Trustees has presented its highest honor, the William Richardson Davie Award, to four alumni in recognition of their “dedication, commitment, loyalty and service.”
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As the journal “Southern Cultures” celebrates 20 years in print at UNC, Executive Editor Ayse Erginer wants to meet the growing readership wherever they are.
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FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium 7:30 pm, Thursday, November 14 Sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center Last week on Nov. 7, Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines in what appears to have been the strongest tropical cyclone to touch an inhabited coast in modern meteorological records. The devastating effects of the storm are still being tabulated
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Carolina alumnus Julia Sprunt Grumbles ’75 has received a 2013 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service to the College of Arts and Sciences.
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The public is invited to attend the annual Veteran’s Day ceremony at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Nov. 11. The ceremony will begin at 11:11 a.m. at the Carolina Alumni Memorial on Cameron Avenue near Memorial Hall. Veterans will be asked to stand and be recognized as the conflict in which
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Our November calendar is chock-full of great events, including “poolside” theater, music on the porch, and lectures by Holden Thorp, Julian Bond and Stuart Eizenstat. Highlights and links below. Nov. 1: Graduate Education Summit. Leaders in higher education and government will discuss the future of graduate education. 3 p.m. Sonja Haynes Stone Center. http://gradschool.unc.edu/ Nov.
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Oct. 1: Live bluegrass banjo concert with Jim Mills. 12 noon, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. 919.962.7105. http://library.unc.edu Oct. 1: Syria — The Wider Implications, a discussion with UNC Political Science Professors Timothy McKeown, Navin Bapat and Stephen Gent, and doctoral students Bryce Loidolt, Elizabeth Menninga and Chris Watt. 7:30 pm, Murray G202. https://college.unc.edu/2013/09/18/syriapanel/
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