By Rah Bickley ’86 Vicki Underwood Craver ’92, chair of the Arts and Sciences Foundation Board of Directors, could once be found deep inside the old Venable Hall chemistry lab, toiling over her experiments. If the former chemistry major were a student today, she would find herself in Carolina’s airy, new state-of-the-art physical science complex. […]
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By Hope Baptiste ’87 Brent Sheerer ’97 (M.B.A.) didn’t take the easiest road to getting his college education, but for him and his daughter, Kristen, who graduated from UNC in 2013 with a degree in applied sciences, the journey was well worth it. It took Sheerer eight years to earn his undergraduate degree from Youngstown
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Mallory Nickel, who in early August launched into her second year teaching at Lee Early College High School in Sanford, down U.S. 15-501 just south of Chapel Hill, knows a thing or two about holding teenagers’ attentions.
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The 3,988 first-year students expected to start classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next week were chosen from a record 31,331 applicants. They hail from 94 North Carolina counties, 38 states and the District of Columbia and 24 countries.
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This summer, faculty in the College have experienced a tandem bike ride across the country, archaeological excavations in Greece, a music cultural diplomacy trip to India and a visit to El Alto, Bolivia, to study a cable car system in the highest city in the world.
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What do you do when you’ve reached the rank of Army staff sergeant early in your career? If you’re Carlos Cordero, 27, you go back to school to earn a degree that will help you reach your goal of becoming a commissioned officer.
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The 2014-2015 Process Series will feature seven new artistic works-in-development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, beginning Aug. 21.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the regional premieres of three thought-provoking productions in its 2014-2015 PRC2 second-stage series, kicking off Sept. 2 with Roger Guenveur Smith’s powerful new one-man show “Rodney King.”
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How can a professor squeeze the works of the Bard of Avon into the 4½ weeks of summer session or the (gasp) 12 days of Maymester? Learn how David Baker and Ritchie Kendall teach Shakespeare during the summer.
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UNC joins an international team of astronomers in using the world’s first robotic laser adaptive optics system to explore thousands of exoplanet systems (planets around other stars) at resolutions approaching those of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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