Carolina senior Purshotam Aruwani, biology and political science double major, had the opportunity to intern with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. Aruwani focused on identifying gaps in current DPS policies and designing preemptive policy solutions.
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Diamond Holloman, a Ph.D. candidate in Carolina’s Environment, Ecology and Energy program, is the first recipient of a post-Florence disaster relief grant from the Carolina Center for Public Service. She is investigating ways that communities of color in Lumberton, North Carolina, experience and recover from natural disaster.
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UNC-CH junior and policy/economics major Abby Boettcher was a 2019 APPLES summer intern with Wake County Commissioner Matt Calabria. A native of Cary, North Carolina, Boettcher spent her summer conducting policy research on a variety of issues, including increasing voter registration and reducing gun violence.
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Stella Zhizhi Li, a UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student in musicology, has been selected to serve as the Harold J. Glass USAF Graduate Fellow for academic year 2019-2020.
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Asian studies’ Uffe Bergeton was among four winners of the 2019 annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. They were awarded to faculty who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise.
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Declining growth of Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System corals predicts trouble for worldwide reefs.
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Sherry Magill, former president/executive director of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, will spend the fall 2019 semester at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University focusing on the issue of philanthropy and the academy.
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First-year student Cecelia Tucker of Asheville has been awarded the 2019 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full, four-year merit scholarship in creative writing in the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Cecelia Tucker awarded 2019 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship in creative writing Read More »
Juan Carlos González Espitia is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. In his historical study of syphilis in the Spanish-speaking world, he explores the ways the disease affects private and public life, literature, the arts, medical discourse, politics, and public policy.
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After a 21-year career in the U.S. Army, John Bechtold is now a PhD student in UNC’s Department of American Studies, using photography as a means to discuss American public memory and cultural perceptions of war.
