In 1999, Mary Turner Lane established the Mary Turner Lane Award in Women’s Studies, an annual award honoring a senior women’s studies major or minor who has made an outstanding contribution to research on women’s issues. Lane created the fund to encourage and further academic research in women’s studies. Lane was the founding director of […]
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Ethan Lievense, an M.A. ’17 candidate in sport administration in the department of exercise and sport science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences guided a 50-year-old blind man from Ireland named Tony Ward in running the New York City Marathon on Nov. 1.
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Daniel Reeves ’07, an economics and political science major, from Purlear, N.C., was the first Dowd Scholar at Carolina. He is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in economics at Cornell University. His research interests focus on the intersection of behavioral economics and public finance. Daniel’s research includes taking insights from psychology and economic models to
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As the new director of the UNC Parr Center for Ethics, Russ Shafer-Landau wants to reach — and energize — a larger, broader audience.
UNC Parr Center for Ethics: Facilitating Conversations Read More »
The multiple Tony Award-winning play with music, which opens Nov. 18, tells the story of the boy who becomes Peter Pan. Special events associated with the production begin Nov. 9.
PlayMakers presents ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ for the holidays Read More »
In 1992, five members of the Tennille family established an endowment in the classics department honoring Margaret Rose Tennille (1917-2014). Margaret Rose was born in Hopewell, Virginia, in March 1917. When she was six years old, her family moved to Winston-Salem, where she later attended Salem College for two years. In 1939, she married Norton
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Latin American studies on campus during the 2015-16 academic year.
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One of only four Department of Energy Centers of Excellence for Nuclear Physics in the nation, TUNL brings together the resources of three universities: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke Universit, and North Carolina State University.
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Margaret Harper didn’t graduate from Carolina, but the University and the College of Arts and Sciences always held a special place in her heart. Harper demonstrated her love for the College by making the first gift of $1,000 to the Foundation upon its founding in 1975. And she continued to give, making annual gifts to
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From film viewings and performances to cultural events and lectures, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will celebrate American Indian heritage throughout November.
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