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Writer Stewart O’Nan, whose novels, short stories, nonfiction and screenplays all paint a portrait of American life, will speak Feb. 27 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will also participate in other events.

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents the regional premiere of Deborah Salem Smith’s loving portrait of grief and healing, “Love Alone,” Feb. 26-March 16.

The multiple Grammy Award-winning Wayne Shorter Quartet will headline the 37th annual Carolina Jazz Festival Feb. 19-22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mark Katz, professor and chair of the department of music and adjunct professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Andrew Perrin, an associate professor of sociology, has been named the new director of the Carolina Seminars Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Perrin succeeds James Peacock, Kenan Professor of Anthropology.

Hill Hall’s auditorium will be renovated and named after former Chancellor James Moeser and his wife, Susan. Hill Hall houses the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s music department.

Surojit “Surge” Biswas, a May 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received a 2014-2015 Churchill Scholarship, valued at $62,000, for graduate work at the University of Cambridge in England.