Through Media and the Movement, assistant professor Seth Kotch hopes to give a glimpse into the experiences of everyday people and activists from the civil rights era. He is creating a digital archive of broadcasts from black activist radio stations from the 1960s and ’70s.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Community Capital has received a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation to continue its long-term study of lower-income homeownership before, during and after one of the worst economic crises in the nation’s history.
Researchers identify unexpected activity of antibiotics, potentially reshaping our understanding of why antibiotics evolved and pointing to broad health implications.
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James F. Cahoon is among 126 scholars being awarded the 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship. This is the second prestigious award given to early-career scientists that Cahoon has received in recent months. Last October, he was awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering,
Hitting a double: Cahoon scores two prestigious honors Read More »
On March 3, the Writing and Learning Centers will host “Appy Hour,” a launch party for their new compendium – a website with recommended apps and programs selected to help students use their smartphones to maximize their productivity.
Appy Hour: Writing and Learning Centers Launch Smartphone App Database Read More »
The mayors and municipal staffs of five of America’s historic black towns will come to campus April 6-7 for a symposium with UNC scholars that will address legal and government issues, oral history collection, entrepreneurship and cultural tourism, archive development and preservation, foodways and community health.
UNC forges partnership with historic black Southern towns Read More »
Joseph Haj, producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the next artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. He will begin the position in July.
PlayMakers’ Haj to become artistic director of Guthrie Theater Read More »
(NOTE: THE TIME OF THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED UP TO 6:45 P.M.) University of Toronto professor emeritus of history Modris Eksteins will discuss the legacy of World War I in a free public lecture Feb. 25 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reckford Lecture to examine legacy of World War I Read More »
Sarah Cooley, a senior Morehead-Cain Scholar and geological sciences major and mathematics minor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a recipient of the 2015 Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Sarah Cooley earns prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship Read More »
In the early 2000s, Kenan Professor of English Alan Shapiro received an unusual job offer from Dean Smith.
The ‘complete picture’: The Institute for the Arts and Humanities remembers Dean Smith Read More »
