North Carolina poet and novelist Ron Rash will receive the 2013 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture Oct. 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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A $499,340 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will enhance the teaching of undergraduate physics courses.
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Three UNC archaeology alums have unearthed the earliest European settlement in the interior United States near Morganton, N.C.
Exploring Joara: Excavating the past, shaping the future in western N.C. Read More »
Few people can point to the exact moment that changed their life, but Eunice Sahle, chair of UNC’s department of African, African American and diaspora studies, can point to the day she decided to become a teacher and writer.
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Two Carolina undergraduates are among some 8,000 “Explorers” selected by Google Inc. to try out “Glass,” the company’s new voice-activated, eye-glass-like gadget. Google Glass is not yet available to the public. Patrick Lung and Pranati Panuganti heard about the Glass contest during the spring 2013 semester while they both were studying entrepreneurship in a
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has selected Nicole Johnson ’14 to serve as a Young Ambassador for her study in Germany for the 2013-14 academic year.
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“Ocean predator” conjures up images of sharks and barracudas, but the voracious red lionfish is out-eating them all in the Caribbean – and Mother Nature appears unable to control its impact.
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Incoming first-year student Madeline “Maddie” Norris of Columbia, S.C., has been awarded a 2013 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full four-year merit scholarship in creative writing, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a project site for the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) five-year initiative to improve the quality of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its member institutions.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has provided approximately $657,500 in scholarships, fellowships and program support to 147 undergraduates for study abroad during 2013 and 2014.
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