Social Sciences

Graduate student research benefits North Carolina

Warm winter weather scenes in Coker Arboretum on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

The UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School has honored 20 graduate students in programs throughout the University with the 2019 Impact Awards and Horizon Awards. The awards celebrate the graduate students’ powerful discoveries that contribute to a better future for people and communities in North Carolina.

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Rhodes appointed interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

Terry Rhodes (photo by Johnny Andrews)

As Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences since 2012, Rhodes has long championed the value of the arts and humanities to a well-rounded education throughout her more than three decades at Carolina.

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Nobel laureate Kip Thorne to speak on black holes, time travel and more

A Constellation of Cosmos Events at Carolina. 2017 Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne My Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe: From Black Holes and Wormholes to Time Travel and Gravitational Waves. A free lecture by the 2019 Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor Kip Thorne Thursday, Feb. 21 – Memorial Hall, 5:30 p.m. college.unc.edu/frey

Kip Thorne’s lecture, “My Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe: From Black Holes and Wormholes to Time Travel and Gravitational Waves” will take place on Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

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Guskiewicz appointed interim chancellor

A neuroscientist and internationally recognized expert on sport-related concussions, Kevin Guskiewicz joined Carolina’s faculty in 1995 and has served as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences since January 2016. As interim chancellor, he will chart a course for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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‘Much learning and healing happened’

Students in Glenn Hinson's "Descendants Project" class interviewed three generations of descendants of Warren County lynching victims at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. (photo by Hannah Evans) (photo shows a night-time view of the museum with the Washington Monument in the background).

Through a fall 2018 research-intensive QEP class, students interviewed nine descendants of a 1921 North Carolina lynching victim at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Their oral history interviews will be archived at the museum and in Wilson Library as part of the ongoing Descendants Project, which will capture the stories of living family members of lynching victims and help to memorialize those victims.

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