UNC has always been rich in legends and traditions. One popular legend says that if you take a sip of water from the Old Well on the first day of classes, you’ll get a 4.0 GPA. Enjoy this time-lapse video of students stopping by for a sip of good luck.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company is bringing back open captioning at selected performances during its 2012-2013 season. Open captioning enhances play-going enjoyment by allowing the audience to read along with the play. A screen is visible to the audience, which displays the text of the play as the actors are speaking it. A professional open captioning operator
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Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been elected to the board of directors of ARTS North Carolina. She also has been appointed to the executive committee, which advises the board in strategic planning and setting goals and priorities. PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences
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A $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will expand digital humanities in a transformative way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the hiring of new faculty and the support of graduate students in this emerging field.
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Paul Stapleton, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has won a Pushcart Prize for Fiction for his short story, “The Fall of Punicea.” The story was published in the spring 2011 edition of J Journal: New Writing on Justice, the literary journal of John Jay College of Criminal
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A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. The excavations are being conducted by Jodi Magness of UNC and colleagues at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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For centuries scholars and theologians have debated the Qur’an’s confusing passages. But Carl Ernst says they’ve missed out on a key method for unlocking the book’s secrets.
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Anthropologist Valerie Lambert has heard many of the stereotypes about American Indians before. But instead of shying away from the misperceptions, Lambert, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation, encourages students to discuss them.
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Joy Kasson, professor of American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the first Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar at UNC.
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Obie Award-winner “An Iliad” will open PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 2012-2013 season Sept 5-9. PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present “An Iliad” as part of its thought-provoking PRC2 second stage series, in which each performance is followed by artist-audience discussion. The one-man play completes the
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