Matthew James Leming of New Orleans, La., a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded a 2014 Goldwater Scholarship. UNC junior Samuel Jackson Resnick of Gainesville, Fla., received an honorable mention.
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The French translation of UNC historian William Ferris’ book, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, has won a prestigious prize from Académie Charles Cros in the world music book category.
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Women who start new businesses with men have limited opportunities to move into leadership roles, according to sociologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and when they co-found a business with their husbands, they have even fewer chances to be in charge.
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Three women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received University Awards for the Advancement of Women in honor of their dedication to the empowerment of women. The awards, created in 2006, go to one faculty member, one staff member and one student, graduate student or postdoctoral scholar.
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UNC biologist John Bruno and colleagues describe how ocean warming will affect global patterns of biodiversity in their latest paper in the journal Nature.
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UNC associate professor of music David Garcia will examine how black music’s African origins was understood in the mid-20th century with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Ten Carolina students presented their original research at the inaugural McCain African and Diaspora Student Undergraduate Research Conference Feb. 28-March 1 at UNC. Students learned that engaging in research helps them move from being consumers of knowledge to becoming producers of knowledge.
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The digitized James L. Dusenbery Journal, part of UNC Libraries’ Documenting the American South collection, provides a glimpse into the life of a Carolina senior during the antebellum period.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will deploy two large buoys 20 miles offshore of the coast and 40 miles north and southwest from Cape Hatteras to capture wind, temperature and barometric pressure data for ongoing research on offshore wind energy.
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Timothy Beatley, a pioneering researcher in the field of “green urbanism” and sustainability, will be the keynote speaker for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2014 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
Sustainability scholar to give doctoral hooding address May 10 Read More »
