The curriculum in global studies welcomed its inaugural cohort of students in the Global Studies Master of Arts Program in the fall 2014 semester. Students in the program concentrate in one of three thematic areas: global economics; global politics, institutions and societies; and global migration and labor rights.
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Sandra Cisneros will deliver Thomas Wolfe Lecture Oct. 21. The author has blazed trails as the first Latina writer to be published by a major publishing house.
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The Carolina Population Center at UNC has received a five–year, $28 million grant for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The study is led by sociologist Kathleen Mullan Harris.
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Her parents put a tennis racquet in her hands when she was 3, and at age 10 she won the city championship in the girls division for her age group. But when Barbara Osborne started junior high school in 1972, she found that sports teams were still only for boys.
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Nearly a century after the railroad arrived in Siler City in the 1880s, the town remained a sleepy Southern burg of a few thousand souls. Roughly half the town was white, the other half black.
But in the 1990s, outsiders began trickling into Siler City, people who knew little about the town except that it was a destination point for work – either in the chicken slaughterhouse or the aging textile mills.
Bonilla’s drive to help others began with family Read More »
Gov. Pat McCrory will deliver the keynote speech at the annual University Day celebration on Oct. 12 in Memorial Hall. Krista Perreira in the College of Arts and Sciences will receive the Edward Kidder Graham Faculty Service Award.
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For his remarkable service to Carolina, chemistry professor Joe Templeton was named the 2014 winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award,
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A new, free, six-week online course that explores the stories, music and art of the American South will be offered Oct. 13 to Nov. 28. The course is being taught by historian William Ferris.
Free online course features stories, music, art of the American South Read More »
Black holes have long captured the public imagination and been the subject of popular culture, They are the ultimate unknown – the blackest and most dense objects in the universe. Now add this to the mix: they don’t exist.
Carolina’s Laura Mersini-Houghton shows that black holes do not exist Read More »
UNC hosted a delegation from Universität Bremen, Germany on Sept. 8 and 9. Since 2009, Bremen has been a member of the TransAtlantic Masters (TAM) program, a unique and intensive degree program offered through the Center for European Studies.
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