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Priscilla Layne traces her path from multicultural Chicago to a career in German

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Priscilla Layne

When people hear I’m a German professor, they ask me two questions: Do I have German relatives? Was I a military brat? The answer to both is “no.” People frequently assume that if an American decides to learn German, this must be for familial, functional or professional reasons. I began learning German as a 10-year-old living on the North Side of Chicago because I wanted to understand Indiana Jones!

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Report shows Muslim-American terrorism cases continued to drop in 2017

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A new report by a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill documents a continuing decline in the number of Muslim-Americans associated with violent extremism in 2017. The total for the first year of the Trump administration continued a downward trend that was visible in the final year of the Obama administration.

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UNC Mideast Center Hosts Final Cohort of Carnegie Fellowships in Support of Arab Region Social Science

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Mariam Alkazemi, Gulf University for Science & Technology, with advisor Deb Aikat and UNC Mideast Center program director, Charles Kurzman.

The Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations was pleased to host its final cohort of early-career social scientists from universities in the Arab world for semester-long fellowships.

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UNC-Chapel Hill named best value in U.S. public higher education

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For the 17th time, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is the best value in American public higher education, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

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NASA Awards Grant to UNC: Land Cover and Change on Global Island Ecosystems

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The Galapagos Islands. Photos courtesy of Steve Walsh.

The NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a three-year grant in the amount of $720,000 to examine the effects of social and ecological factors, particularly, human migration and tourism on the environment and on the sustainability of island ecosystems.

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