New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will speak, and he and four other luminaries will receive honorary degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the May 13 Commencement ceremony.
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Two academic advisers in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences have won 2016 national advising awards. The awards, given by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), were awarded based on significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising. The winners include: Nikki Glenos, an adviser in the fine arts and humanities division, who has been
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UNC Music Professor Jocelyn Neal, co-editor of the journal Southern Cultures and a scholar of commercial country music and American popular music, has been appointed director of the Center for the Study of the American South, effective July 1, 2012.
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Studio art majors who will graduate in May, August and December 2012 will display their work in 219 Hanes Art Center from May 7-13. In this exhibition, graduating seniors will reflect on their time spent at Carolina. A broad range of works will be exhibited, representing nearly every artistic medium.
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Lisa Lindsay, an associate professor of history in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her research. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, based in New York City, appoints fellows based on prior achievement and exceptional promise in research and artistic creation. Lindsay’s current project is “Atlantic Bonds: A Family
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The minor in entrepreneurship is proud to announce that four students have been chosen as winners of the JNO Awards in Entrepreneurial Studies: Jeremy Bass, Santiago Beltran, Ann Johnston and Catie King.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the world premiere of “Penelope” April 25-29. In “Penelope,” a woman’s ex-husband reappears after 20 years, suffering from brain damage. An injured veteran of war, he does not know who he is. She does not understand who he’s become. She reads aloud from “The Odyssey” and finds a way into her former husband’s memory, breaking through his terror and the trauma of war.
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The Carolina Center for Public Service recently hosted the University’s annual Public Service Awards ceremony. Several students from the College of Arts and Sciences were recognized.
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Alexandru Bacanu, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a 2012 Goldwater Scholarship while Surojit Biswas, also a junior at UNC, received an honorable mention.
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Patrick Link graduated from UNC in 2007 with a major in dramatic art and a minor in writing for the screen and stage. His new Off-Broadway play, “Headstrong,” is inspired by the ongoing struggles of professional athletes with head-related injuries. (The run of the play has been extended until May 27.)
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