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Winners selected for UNC Creativity Hubs inaugural awards

The graphical image says Creativity Hubs with little icons at the top representing different facets of creativity.

UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to two of the world’s most pressing issues: the obesity epidemic and the global clean water shortage. College of Arts & Sciences faculty play a key role on the teams.

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Computer science department provides an ‘empowering’ day for visually impaired students

Maze Day invites K-12 students with visual impairments, along with their parents/guardians and teachers, to the computer science department to experience a wide variety of educational games and tools created just for them. (photo by Emilie Poplett) A young male student with headphones is sitting with an older female student and they are looking at something on a laptop computer.

Maze Day invites K-12 students with visual impairments, along with their parents/guardians and teachers, to the computer science department to experience a wide variety of educational games and tools created just for them.

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Meet Madelyn Percy: President of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation

Madelyn Percy sits in front of a stack of drawers with one pulled out showing rocks. (She is a geologist)

Madelyn Percy’s work has taken her to Chile, France, Belize and Iceland. She has spent a total of 18 weeks in the Galapagos Archipelago studying soil fertility. At UNC-Chapel Hill, Percy is pursuing her goal of becoming a “rock solid geoscience educator.”

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Kent Place School wins sixth annual National High School Ethics Bowl

Students at Kent Place School in New Jersey won the sixth annual National High School Ethics Bowl. Students are pictured here sitting at a table with their trophy.

Kent Place School from Summit, New Jersey, won the 2018 National High School Ethics Bowl. Students from across the United States came to UNC-Chapel Hill to discuss complex and timely ethical dilemmas collaboratively in the sixth annual event.

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Double up and pick a concentration: English offers perfect pairing with any major

J. Ross MacDonald Professor Daniel Wallace teaches creative writing, which has long been a popular minor, but will become a new major concentration as well this fall. (photo by Donn Young)

The department of English and comparative literature will offer seven new major concentrations beginning this fall. Want to make yourself more marketable? Students are encouraged to pair their English major with natural sciences, social sciences and more.

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UNC-Chapel Hill receives $10 million commitment from Pope Foundation to advance core areas of excellence and service

Beautiful shot of spring trees with pink flowers blooming as a students walks past buildings on the UNC Campus.

On April 23, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a $10 million commitment from the John William Pope Foundation to support a combination of core areas where Carolina excels: cancer research, multidisciplinary and innovative thinking, excellence in sport and being of and serving the state’s citizens.

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May honored for his distinguished service to the College

From left, Kevin Guskiewicz, Lanier May, Jamie May (holding the special proclamation in his honor) and Sunny Burrows. (photo courtesy of Fire Rose Photography NC).

Jamie May, former senior associate dean for development and executive director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation, was awarded the William F. Little Award for Distinguished Service to the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his extraordinary leadership and service. The honor was presented at an Arts and Sciences Foundation board dinner on

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