Fine Arts & Humanities

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents world premiere of ‘Leaving Eden’

L to R: Carlos Alcalaand Sarita Ocón will star as Javier and Maria, while Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Samuel Ray Gates, and Alex Givens will star as Eve, Adam, and Seth in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Leaving Eden” by Mike Wiley, music & lyrics by Laurelyn Dossett. Directed by Vivienne Benesch. Apr 4–22, 2018. Call 919.962.7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org. (Photo by HuthPhoto.)

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents the world premiere of “Leaving Eden,” a play with music, script by North Carolina playwright and UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus Mike WIley, and music and lyrics by North Carolina
singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett, April 4-22.

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CSAS director embraces the ‘messiness’ of history

Malinda Maynor Lowery, pictured in the Love House and Hutchins Forum, became director of the Center for the Study of the American South in July 2017 after serving as director of the Southern Oral History Program. (photo by Jon Gardiner, UNC-Chapel Hill)

Associate professor of history Malinda Maynor Lowery has always felt a deep sense of place—a quality her parents deliberately passed down to her 45 years ago, on the occasion of her birth, when they drove some 100 miles from their home in Durham to the hospital in Lumberton where Lowery was born.

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PlayMakers Repertory Company announces 2018-2019 season

PlayMakers Repertory Company 18-19 season. Shifting Ground: Theatre that Moves

A merry romp through Sherwood Forest, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a high-stakes power play between working class and big business, a world premiere of depth and delicacy, the search for truth in the stars and one of the most romantic musicals of all time make up the Mainstage lineup of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 2018-2019 season: “Shifting Ground – Theatre that Moves.”

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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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