Fine Arts & Humanities

Entrepreneur Deshpande talks universities, innovation

/ Fine Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Education

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, co-founder of the Deshpande Foundation, president and chairman of Sparta Group, LLC, chairman of Tejas Networks and serial entrepreneur, visited Carolina in early September to speak with students in the College of Arts and Science’s Introduction to Entrepreneurship class. While he was on campus, Deshpande shared his thoughts on how universities fit into […]

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100-Year-Old Challenge Draws to Close Sept. 15 at Wilson Library

/ Fine Arts & Humanities

In 1915, former UNC President Kemp Plummer Battle sent a mysterious box to the North Carolina Historical Society. It contained a Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog from that year and instructions to members of the University community to use that catalog in order to reflect on changes in society both fifty and a hundred years later.

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UNC Performance Studies announces 2015-2016 season

/ Fine Arts & Humanities, Global Programs, Undergraduate Education

The performance studies program of the department of communication at UNC announces 12 new creative projects beginning in October 2015, to be performed in Swain’s Studio 6. Infinite Loop by Christopher Dahlie, Oct. 2-3 Brabo by Susannah Ryan, Oct. 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 And So We Walked by DeLanna Studi, produced by the

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The Experience Project awards $1.7 million to 22 research projects

/ Fine Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences

A research collaboration that aims to build new understanding about how religious and transformative experiences occur and shape people’s lives is awarding its first round of funding with more than $1.7 million going to 22 projects. The project is directed by L.A. Paul, a professor of philosophy at UNC.

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