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Johna Register-Mihalik focuses on prevention and treatment of concussions

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Johna Register-Mihalik, pictured here with a female research participant, research focuses on the prevention, education, consequences, and clinical management of recreation- and sport-related traumatic brain injury.

Johna Register-Mihalik is an assistant professor in the department of exercise and sport science within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. She is also a faculty member of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center and the Injury Prevention Research Center. Her research focuses on the prevention, education, consequences, and clinical management of recreation- and sport-related traumatic brain injury.

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PlayMakers Repertory company presents ‘The Christians’ in rotating repertory with ‘Tartuffe’

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PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, presents The Christians by 2017 Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath, in rotating repertory with the Molière classic Tartuffe (adapted by David Ball).

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Exercise and sport science professor recommends 10 ways to work out at work

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We spend a third of each day at work, many of us sitting at a desk or at a computer. This inactivity is so bad for us that some health experts have declared that “sitting is the new smoking.” If you’ve resolved to exercise more in 2018, check out these tips from Abbie Smith-Ryan, associate professor in the department of exercise and sport science in the College of Arts & Sciences, to share 10 ways to make your workout part of your workday.

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Arts Everywhere initiative launches free app to connect community with the arts on campus

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On Jan. 22, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Arts Everywhere initiative launched a new mobile app that will serve as a one-stop shop to connect the campus and the wider community to art experiences happening at the University.

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Report shows Muslim-American terrorism cases continued to drop in 2017

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A new report by a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill documents a continuing decline in the number of Muslim-Americans associated with violent extremism in 2017. The total for the first year of the Trump administration continued a downward trend that was visible in the final year of the Obama administration.

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UNC Mideast Center Hosts Final Cohort of Carnegie Fellowships in Support of Arab Region Social Science

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Mariam Alkazemi, Gulf University for Science & Technology, with advisor Deb Aikat and UNC Mideast Center program director, Charles Kurzman.

The Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations was pleased to host its final cohort of early-career social scientists from universities in the Arab world for semester-long fellowships.

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