Women’s studies professor Michele Tracy Berger has been named the new associate director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
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Do you like the TV shows “CSI,” “Criminal Minds” or “Bones?” Anthropology Professor Dale Hutchinson teaches students from all majors how to map and recover the elements of a crime scene in his class, Anthropology 423: “Written in Bone.”
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Sociology faculty members Arne Kalleberg and Christopher Bail have won awards from the American Sociological Association for their research.
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Shelley Clarke, the manager for the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Eve Duffy, a manager in the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, were honored at a ceremony May 22 for the ways in which they support and influence others in their jobs at UNC.
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Senior geography major Kate Grady’s sweet summer adventure included studying urban beekeeping on the rooftops of Brooklyn, thanks to a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
Beekeeping in Brooklyn: Urban apiculture is thriving in NYC Read More »
A new online guide designed to help K-12 teachers incorporate philosophy into their instruction has been published by LEARN NC and the department of philosophy in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. The guide, “Philosophy Resources for Educators,” includes an introduction to methods of philosophical discourse, a bibliography of both online and print resources for
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Undergraduate researcher Ann Soltan (environmental studies, American studies ’13) wants to put solar energy to work on California dairy farms while saving farmers a bit of cash.
Clean energy for when the cows come home Read More »
Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, founding director of Carolina’s Southern Oral History Program, has won the 2013 Mary Turner Lane Award for outstanding contributions to the lives of women students, faculty, staff and administrators at Carolina.
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The presence of legislators who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender has a direct, significant impact on pro-LGBT legislation around the world, according to new research from a political scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
LGBT legislators have a significant effect on laws that promote equality Read More »
Geography graduate student Jon Duncan was awarded the first Keohane Professional Graduate Student Award for his research in hydrology.
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