Finding fresh water
How much fresh water is there around the world? The question seems like it would have an easy answer but UNC’s Tamlin Pavelsky will tell you that’s not the case.
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Proff Koch fanned students’ creative spark into a flame
Years before Charles Kuralt did it, Carolina had a champion of the common people who understood the value of taking his show on the road.
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UNC junior named 2014 Goldwater Scholar
Matthew James Leming of New Orleans, La., a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded a 2014 Goldwater Scholarship. UNC junior Samuel Jackson Resnick of Gainesville, Fla., received an honorable mention.
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Three honored with advancement of women awards
Three women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received University Awards for the Advancement of Women in honor of their dedication to the empowerment of women. The awards, created in 2006, go to one faculty member, one staff member and one student, graduate student or postdoctoral scholar.
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Sustainability scholar to give doctoral hooding address May 10
Timothy Beatley, a pioneering researcher in the field of “green urbanism” and sustainability, will be the keynote speaker for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2014 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
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Global Heels: International Scholar HOU Xin
HOU Xin is a visiting scholar in the Program on Chinese Cities, an initiative of the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
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UNC Morehead-Cain Scholar selected for 2014-2015 Luce Scholars fellowship
The newest Luce Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is Joël Joseph Hage of Greensboro, a senior Morehead-Cain Scholar who is fluent in five languages. His major is in global studies with a minor in Arabic, both in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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True democracy eludes Russia
Thirty-four years later, the old Soviet Union is gone, and the Olympics have just ended in the new Russia. Robertson continues to be a keen observer, now as an associate professor of political science at Carolina who has built a career studying political protest in modern Russia.
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Global Heels: Reem Ghunaim, Palestinian Territory
Reem Ghunaim is studying city and regional planning in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. She is specializing in economic development. She will graduate in May 2014 with a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will also earn an international development certificate, plus a certificate from Duke in conflict resolution and international peace, as part of her Rotary Peace Fellowship with the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution.
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In the shade of the longleaf pine, some N.C. plants find relief from global warming
Trees pull carbon dioxide out of the air, and some scientists think that more trees will mean slower global warming. But trees may also be blunting the effects of climate change, says UNC plant ecologist Peter White, just by blocking the sun’s rays.
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