Happy New Year. Get warmed up for the spring term by checking out the many events on the College of Arts and Sciences January calendar. Highlights and links below. Jan. 9 – 13: PlayMakers’ PRC2 presents And God Created Great Whales. $15-$36. https://college.unc.edu/2012/12/18/playmakersgreatwhales/ Jan. 10: A folklore colloquium with Grammy Award winners Lance and April […]
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PlayMakers Repertory Company offers audiences two insightful looks at race and the meaning of home in productions of “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park,” to be performed in rotating repertory Jan. 26 to March 3.
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The University’s board of trustees received two external reviews Thursday concerning past academic irregularities in African and Afro-American studies. Reviewers found that the problems began in 1997, involved two persons who no longer work here, and did not occur in any other academic departments. Reviewers also validated the extensive policies now in place to prevent similar problems in the future.
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Over the past three decades, researchers have shown that people with fewer connections to family, friends, and social groups have a greater risk of being in poor health than do people with many social connections. Sociologist Yang Yang is determined to find out why.
Demographer Yang Yang finds link between health and social connectivity Read More »
Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists, Chancellor Holden Thorp and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies, were named charter fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, a nonprofit organization that recognizes investigators who translate their research findings into inventions that may benefit society. Inductees of this prestigious group demonstrate a spirit of innovation and
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PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents actor-playwright-composer Rinde Eckert’s award-winning “And God Created Great Whales” Jan. 9-13.
PlayMakers presents Obie-winner ‘And God Created Great Whales’ Read More »
Bjorn Brandenburg, a 2011 Ph.D. alumnus in computer science, received one of the nation’s most prestigious awards focused on doctoral dissertations.
Brandenburg receives national honors for dissertation research Read More »
The Spanish for the Professions Minor in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences prepares students for bilingual careers in the business, communications and healthcare professions.
Engaged Learning: Spanish for the Professions Read More »
Native son and UNC creative writing professor Bland Simpson never set out to do it, but he’s become the unofficial chronicler of North Carolina’s Outer Coastal Plain.
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Brian Hogan, a research assistant professor of chemistry, has been named to the new class of Faculty Engaged Scholars at UNC. Hogan is one of 10 faculty scholars recently selected by the Carolina Center for Public Service as the fourth class of the program. The Faculty Engaged Scholars program is an initiative of the Center
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