Shards of glass explode into a fiery rainstorm as a Molotov cocktail crashes through a window of Mike’s Grocery in downtown Wilmington. Firefighters arrive to put out the blaze, but are shot by a group of vigilante gunmen on a nearby rooftop. The building survives the flames that Friday evening — only to be […]
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The William Blake Archive has launched a redesigned web site, making it easier than ever for educators and scholars to access and study Blake’s works. The web site is a hypermedia archive of Blake’s poetry and art that is sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Rochester.
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Kevin Guskiewicz, who in a few weeks will mark his first full year as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, recently held a facultywide meeting in the Genome Sciences Building auditorium. It was the first all-faculty meeting in nearly 20 years.
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Up to $15 million in funding for the new center will build upon successes in reducing vehicular fatalities and injuries. It will be led by the Highway Safety Research Center in collaboration with the University’s department of city and regional planning in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Injury Prevention Research Center
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Three students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were selected as recipients of the 2017 William D. Weir Honors Fellowship in Asian Studies, a program designed for students who have started their Chinese language journey and would like to develop advanced working language skills.
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Matthew Kotzen’s undergraduate “Philosophy of Comedy” course focuses on the broad concept of comedy and its relation to philosophy, including ethical issues, aesthetics and theories of the nature of humor. He encourages students to think broadly about various types of humor and their role in society.
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Marine scientists at UNC are taking a new approach to figuring out why and how microalgae blooms occur in the Neuse River Estuary.
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UNC anthropologist and women’s and gender studies chair Silvia Tomášková studies South African rock engravings to unearth the creative process of some of the country’s earliest inhabitants.
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Jialing (LingLing) Jiang, a fourth-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Chang Zhao, a 2015 graduate of the University, have been selected for the Schwarzman Scholars program, an elite China-based scholarship modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship and founded by Blackstone Co-Founder and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman. This innovative master’s degree
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Playing in a new class called the Carolina Bluegrass Band, Liz Short experienced a surreal moment when the band shared a stage with the Grammy Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers. “We had not even played in front of people, and we’re in Memorial Hall with an audience three times bigger than any I’ve performed for,” said
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