Connie Eble knows why she was chosen for the 2018 Jefferson Award. “Longevity and institutional memory,” Eble said mischievously. Then, she matter-of-factly said, “I show up.” A professor in the English and comparative literature department, Eble joined Carolina’s faculty in 1971. She is in her last semester of teaching and will retire fully in […]
‘Show up’ is motto for Eble, a true citizen of University Read More »
When English professor and writer Bland Simpson was just a little boy, he accompanied his grandfather Julius Andrews Page Sr. on long strolls across Polk Place on the Carolina campus. They would walk from building to building where his Granddaddy Page would discuss such arcane things as mortar joints in intricate detail. He was
Bland Simpson receives 2018 Edward Kidder Graham Award Read More »
A part-time job at a campus makerspace has added another dimension to Kalleen Kelley’s neuroscience and psychology research projects.
As a first-year student, Elena Watts took a research-based field trip that would change her life and lead her to four years of undergraduate research at UNC. The results of her original work served as the basis for a grant that now funds other students in the geology department.
Riverine Re[Sr]ch: An Undergraduate’s Journey in Geology Read More »
Twenty-five UNC-Chapel Hill students spent six weeks this summer navigating Germany, Spain and Denmark—and never set foot in a car.
Students learn about sustainability, storytelling in Europe Read More »
U.S. News & World Report ranks UNC-Chapel Hill as the No. 4 undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country.
Carolina entrepreneurship education earns top-tier ranking Read More »
Marcie Cohen Ferris, professor emeritus of American studies, was awarded the 2018 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance.
Ferris wins lifetime achievement award from Southern Foodways Alliance Read More »
Singer/songwriter Gillian Welch, known for her at-times dark Americana songs, was the first musician to be awarded the Thomas Wolfe Medal. The Thomas Wolfe Society and Carolina created the medal in 2000 to commemorate the birth of Wolfe, an alumnus (class of 1920) and author of novels such as “Look Homeward, Angel.”
Welch, Rawlings blend story and song during Thomas Wolfe Lecture Read More »
The College of Arts & Sciences will offer five new courses in spring 2019 to pilot-test a new core offering being proposed for the General Education curriculum. These broadly interdisciplinary courses expose students to new ideas, new modes of inquiry and essential skills.
New Ideas, Information and Inquiry courses explore broad topics across disciplines Read More »
Singer/songwriter Tift Merritt will receive a University Distinguished Alumna Award on University Day, Oct. 12. She is also the new performing artist-in-residence at Community Histories Workshop and will be working with CHW on the Dix Park project.
Tift Merritt and the lyrical language of history and place Read More »
