Social Sciences

UNC-Chapel Hill alumna selected for Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program

Tiffany Cox, who double-majored in global studies and public policy and minored in Chinese in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of 20 selected for graduate program focused on Foreign Service preparation.

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UNC Global announces 2015-16 Global Partnership Award recipients

Launched in Fall 2013, the Global Partnership Awards help UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and students sustain and develop partnerships with international institutions, with preference given to proposals that include designated UNC strategic or emerging partners.

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Platter Chatter: One UNC philosophy professor invites us to question what we put on our plates

When people make an effort to conserve water, most take shorter showers or buy more efficient appliances. But these methods may be missing the mark. Approximately 4,000 to 18,000 gallons of water are needed to produce a hamburger, reports the United States Geological Survey.

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Andrea Barnes selected as UNC-Chapel Hill’s first Mount Vernon Leadership Fellow

Andrea Barnes, a second-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been selected as the University’s first recipient of the Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows Program, a competitive, five and a half week leadership development program for rising college juniors who want to make a difference.

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