Day in the life: Marching Tar Heel
Whether she’s helping direct the Marching Tar Heels or samples in a research lab, senior psychology major Betsy Unger keeps her life as a Carolina student up tempo
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A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
2/26 UPDATE: DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Yo-Yo Ma and members from the Silk Road Ensemble will give a free talk Feb. 26 at UNC.
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The Process Series presents ‘Geomancy: Divination by Geography’
The Process Series at UNC will feature an engaging new work by two poets in February. Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. and Elisabeth Lewis Corley’s Geomancy: Divination by Geography will be performed Feb. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. in Studio 6 of Swain Hall.
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Medical, public health and writing professors honored by alumni association for service to UNC-Chapel Hill
Acclaimed researchers in HIV/AIDS and public health and a writer whose works have appeared on the page and stage were honored Friday, Jan. 16, with the General Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Atmospheric warming heats the bottom of ice sheets, as well as the top
A team of scientists led by researcher Michael Willis has published a new paper showing for the first time that meltwater from the surface of an ice cap in northeastern Greenland can make its way beneath the ice and become trapped, refilling a subglacial lake.
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Day in the life: Artist Paul Travis Phillips
As a conceptual artist, Paul Travis Phillips starts with an idea. The materials — paint, drawing, sculpture, video, performance — come as a secondary. Phillips, an MFA candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences, says the hours of an artist are nonstop.
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The Bugs in Your Drugs
When it comes to fighting disease, bacteria do it better. Not just antibiotics, but immunosuppressants, anti-fungal creams, some drugs for malaria, and many anti-cancer agents come from compounds made by bacteria.
“Bacteria don’t get malaria. They don’t get cancer,” says UNCbiologist Elizabeth Shank. “We don’t really know what bacteria are doing when they make these things.”
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Five students receive Hogan Book Award
Five students received the Hogan Book Award for First-Generation College Students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics.) The award, sponsored by faculty members Kelly and Brian Hogan in the College of Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Pearson Education, will provide first-generation college students with the textbook for the introductory course for biology, physics
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For sea turtles, there’s no place like magnetic home
Adult sea turtles find their way back to the beaches where they hatched by seeking out unique magnetic signatures along the coast, according to new evidence from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (green sea turtle image courtesy of Andresvilla92, Wikimedia Commons)
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Toppin wins National Opera Association Legacy Award
Louise Toppin, professor and chair of the music department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received the Legacy Award from the National Opera Association. The award recognizes the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in professional opera and honors individuals who have made significant contributions toward that goal. Toppin is an internationally acclaimed
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