UNC musicologist Jon Finson will be awarded the 2013 Robert Schumann Prize by the City of Zwickau, Germany. The biennial prize includes an award of 10,000 euros (about $12,900), split between this year’s two recipients. In addition to the monetary award, Finson will also receive a bronze medallion and a certificate. Robert Schumann was a […]
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Jon M. Huntsman, former governor of Utah and U.S. ambassador to China, will deliver the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk, hosted by UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 in Hill Hall Auditorium. Huntsman
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The German Academic Exchange Service has named senior Michelle Lucas a 2012-2013 Young Ambassador. The Young Ambassadors Program recognizes undergraduate students who have recently studied abroad or interned in Germany. At their home institutions, they promote studying in Germany, acting as a liaison for the organization also known as Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD). Lucas,
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UNC archaeologist Jodi Magness will be featured on the big screen — literally — when the IMAX movie, Jerusalem, debuts in June 2013.
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When graduate student Ali Halperin learned that the Frank Gallery in downtown Chapel Hill wanted to feature her art, she immediately thought about the undergraduates she teaches.
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In partnership with the University’s Department of Music and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Carolina Performing Arts will host Reassessing the Rite: A Centennial Conference, a major scholarly contribution to The Rite of Spring at 100 October 25-28 at UNC.
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When Chenxi “Chex” Yu left Chapel Hill to spend the summer in Beijing, China, as part of the UNC-Peking University Entrepreneurship Summer Internship program, she knew she would have some great learning experiences. But she didn’t know she would make history.
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The UNC Symphony Orchestra has won the 2012 first place American Prize in Orchestral Performance in the college/university division.
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Joy Kasson will discuss the value and necessity of the creative arts in a lecture Nov. 11 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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A free public symposium Oct. 25-26 at UNC-Chapel Hill will put the end of the Maya Long Count calendar cycle on Dec. 21 into a larger historical and cultural context that includes the voices of Maya people.
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