Acclaimed researchers in HIV/AIDS and public health and a writer whose works have appeared on the page and stage were honored Friday, Jan. 16, with the General Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bliss Green-Morehead ’15 of Charlotte, North Carolina, is double-majoring in Chinese and German Language and Literature and pursuing a minor in Korean. In the summer of 2014, Green-Morehead studied in Seoul in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), as a Phillips Ambassador, a signature study abroad program.
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Biologist Kerry Bloom studies minute details of the way cells divide. Now, using a 3-D printer at the UNC Kenan Science Library’s Makerspace, Bloom and his colleagues study the microscopic world on a human scale.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded approximately $80,000 to two professors in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mark Evan Bonds, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, received an NEH fellowship to complete Music as Autobiography, a monograph examining the concept of music
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How do you explain a calling? Devon Leondis curls her fingers into her palm and touches her hand lightly to her chest, explaining, “It was always something that was in my heart.” For as long as she can remember, the Carolina junior has wanted to help poor orphans in Africa.
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Nine recently selected Phillips Ambassadors were honored at the annual Phillips Ambassadors fall dinner, held at the Carolina Inn on Nov. 4. The students, all University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduates, were awarded a $5,000 scholarship each for study abroad in Asia during the Spring 2015 semester. The students will be studying throughout Asia, including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Thailand.
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Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, Alison Domonoske ’15 and Josh King ’14, were awarded the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Fellowship awards by the advocacy organization WomenNC. Founded in 2009, WomenNC is a non-profit organization focused on leading North Carolina’s youth in the elimination of injustice against
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Nov. 4 welcomed Joanna Newman, vice-principal (international) at King’s College London, for her first visit to Chapel Hill. Newman was joined by Chris Payne, head of the King’s USA Office. Chancellor Carol L. Folt, who visited King’s in March to formally extend the schools’ partnership, welcomed the delegation at the FedEx Global Education Center.
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Critical thinking is the magic of the classroom: Facts go in, contemplation ensues and voila: perspective emerges. Undergraduate history major Andrew Vail ’99 listened as professor Theda Perdue lectured on the marginalization of Native Americans in the southeastern United States. Education became the impetus. “I recall being in Dr. Perdue’s class and learning about these
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Alumnae from three sororities have each created new professorships in the College of Arts and Sciences after meeting their initial fundraising goals in summer 2014. After countless mailings, receptions and conversations, the multi-year effort drew gifts totaling $1.7 million for distinguished professorships to be named for Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. More
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