Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, founding director of Carolina’s Southern Oral History Program, has won the 2013 Mary Turner Lane Award for outstanding contributions to the lives of women students, faculty, staff and administrators at Carolina.
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The presence of legislators who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender has a direct, significant impact on pro-LGBT legislation around the world, according to new research from a political scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
LGBT legislators have a significant effect on laws that promote equality Read More »
Work entirely designed, implemented, and interpreted by UNC undergraduates has been published in Biochemistry and is highlighted on the journal web page.
Undergraduates publish in journal Biochemistry Read More »
Geography graduate student Jon Duncan was awarded the first Keohane Professional Graduate Student Award for his research in hydrology.
Graduate student wins first Keohane Student Award for hydrology research Read More »
Saving is a critical first step on the path to financial security. But many low-income families find it challenging to choose saving for the future over meeting pressing spending needs today. Results from a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of one asset-building program offer insights on how to encourage low-income
Low-income taxpayers choose saving over spending when offered an incentive Read More »
The new director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be Karla Slocum, an associate professor in anthropology and African and Afro-American studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
UNC anthropologist will lead Institute of African American Research Read More »
Three UNC College of Arts and Sciences faculty members received mentoring awards from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council May 10 at a Campus Y ceremony.
Carolina Women’s Leadership Council honors three UNC faculty for mentoring Read More »
UNC senior Anastasia Elise Bury of South Haven, Mich., has received a David L. Boren Scholarship through the National Security Education Program to benefit U.S. intelligence efforts. For 12 months, Bury will study abroad in Tajikistan where she will learn Tajik, a dialect of modern Persian that is unknown to many because it’s spoken in few parts of the world.
UNC senior awarded 2013 Boren Scholarship to aid national security Read More »
Donna Bickford, associate director of UNC’s Office for Undergraduate Research, has been elected to the Council on Undergraduate Research.
Bickford elected to national Council on Undergraduate Research Read More »
Ivan Cherednik, a mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the recipient of a 2013 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics.
Cherednik named Simons Fellow in Mathematics Read More »
