Writer Daniel Wallace, musician Django Haskins to perform Jan. 11

/ Fine Arts & Humanities

Bestselling author Daniel Wallace and singer-songwriter Django Haskins will present a unique combination of music, storytelling and impromptu conversation Jan. 11 at the Friday Center for Continuing Education. “Fables in Story and Song” will begin at 8 p.m., as part of the center’s “Under the Atrium” series. Tickets are $10 in advance through the Carolina […]

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UNC computer science faculty, graduate student receive Marr Prize

/ Natural Sciences & Mathematics

UNC  assistant professors Alex and Tamara Berg and graduate student Vicente Ordonez of the computer science department were awarded the 2013 Marr Prize at the Fourteenth International Conference on Computer Vision in Sydney, Australia. Their award-winning paper, “From Large-Scale Image Categorization to Entry-Level Categories,” was also co-authored by Jia Deng of Stanford University and Yejin

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Barbour’s book honored by Modern Language Association

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A book by Reid Barbour, a professor in UNC’s department of English and comparative literature, and his University of Oxford colleague David Norbrook has been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA). The book, Translation of Lucretius, volume 1 of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson (Oxford University Press) received an honorable mention for the MLA’s

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