Dynamic plays from three important women playwrights, plus a landmark Arthur Miller drama, a romantic Shakespearean romp and a beloved musical masterpiece, will highlight the 2016-2017 main-stage season from PlayMakers Repertory Company. The new season is the first selected by Vivienne Benesch, PlayMakers’ new producing artistic director.
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The Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies will host a conference on “World War I and the Transformation of the Middle East” on Feb. 19 and 20 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus, with a pre-conference panel at the Duke University Forum for Scholars and Publics.
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The UNC Process Series is excited to kick off its 2016 season with two exciting new works. Admission to both is free with a suggested five-dollar donation. Seats can be reserved on the Process Series website. Mary Domingo, a new play by Anne García Romero, follows the story Mary Peabody Mann, widow of 19th century
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP), a national program that aims to diversify the pool of students pursuing doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts. MURAP works with students
UNC physicists reacted with excitement about the detection of gravitational waves, highlighting the importance of this confirmation after so many years.
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On February 13, the UNC department of computer science will host the Women in Computing Research Symposium, a research fair geared toward undergraduate and graduate women. More than 20 computer science faculty members, graduate students, and industry professionals will be on hand to share their research and experience with attendees from UNC-Chapel Hill and the
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UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have received a $400,000 award to partner with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to study changing the culture of concussion disclosure among military personnel and college athletes.
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Implantable device delivers first-line treatment for pancreatic cancer directly to tumors, bypassing bloodstream and limiting widespread side effects.
Device hits pancreatic tumors hard with toxic four-drug cocktail, sparing the body Read More »
The host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” contributing editor at The Atlantic and Washington Post columnist will speak on the value of a liberal arts education.
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Miguel Rocha Vivas, who received a Ph.D. in 2015 from the department of romance studies, has received Cuba’s prestigious international literature award, Premio Literario Casa de las Américas 2016.
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