Former Tar Heel basketball player Ademola Okulaja was called “The Warrior” because of his tough spirit. But his nickname took on a larger meaning in 2008, when doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in his spine.
Katie Savage first became connected with Carolina when she unexpectedly lost her left leg during surgery at UNC Hospitals when she was 14 years old. On Dec. 14, she joined 2,100 other new UNC graduates as she walked across the stage at the Dean Smith Center.
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UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences has received a $5 million gift to provide Dean Karen M. Gil with “say yes” funds that empower department chairs to be agile, responsive and innovative.
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UNC juniors Michael Adams, Paige Nielsen and Nancy Smith have been named the 2015 Eve Carson Scholars. The selection committee looked for applicants that demonstrate leadership, service, character and transformative growth since matriculation at UNC.
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UNC public policy professors Ashu Handa and Pam Jagger will join two public health colleagues in studying the dangers of cookstove smoke in Rwanda, thanks to a $2.5 million grant.
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The outreach program of the department of philosophy in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences has been honored with a prize for excellence and innovation by the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC).
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Sasha Seymore, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior, and Thomas Golden, a 2011 graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill, have been named recipients of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which supports graduate studies in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The Karen M. Gil Internship Program in Psychology was launched this fall and offers extensive psychology and professional training.
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Senior biomedical engineering student Jeff Powell used a 3-D printer in the basement of Phillips Hall to build a prosthetic hand for 7-year-old Holden Mora of Chapel Hill.
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College of Arts and Sciences students Raymond Blackwell, John Cruickshank and Fedor Kossakovski have created a new publication called Event Horizon. It’s a submission-based online magazine that dedicates itself to sharing stories and art inspired by science.
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