In a new article published in the American Sociological Review, sociologists Michael Biggs of the University of Oxford and Kenneth T. “Andy” Andrews of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences provide compelling evidence that protest can make a difference.
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Students covered wide-ranging and diverse topics stretching from Africa to the black experience in the U.S. to the diaspora at the second annual undergraduate research conference in the department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Jakelin Bonilla, a 2012 alumna, is a recipient of the 2015 Luce Scholars Program fellowship.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Community Capital has received a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation to continue its long-term study of lower-income homeownership before, during and after one of the worst economic crises in the nation’s history.
The mayors and municipal staffs of five of America’s historic black towns will come to campus April 6-7 for a symposium with UNC scholars that will address legal and government issues, oral history collection, entrepreneurship and cultural tourism, archive development and preservation, foodways and community health.
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A new report issued this week by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security shows that terrorist plots involving Muslim-Americans accounted for only a small fraction of the threats to public safety in the United States. The center publishes its report annually to offer systematic evidence on the pressing issues of terrorism and homeland
The core members of global performance troupe La Pocha Nostra will come together on the Carolina campus for a one-week intensive residency to produce a new work-in-progress.They will debut the piece Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in Swain Hall. The performance, presented by the department of communication studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences,
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2/26 UPDATE: DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Yo-Yo Ma and members from the Silk Road Ensemble will give a free talk Feb. 26 at UNC.
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Five students received the Hogan Book Award for First-Generation College Students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics.) The award, sponsored by faculty members Kelly and Brian Hogan in the College of Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Pearson Education, will provide first-generation college students with the textbook for the introductory course for biology, physics
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Louise Toppin, professor and chair of the music department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received the Legacy Award from the National Opera Association. The award recognizes the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in professional opera and honors individuals who have made significant contributions toward that goal. Toppin is an internationally acclaimed
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