Water in the classroom
UNC faculty are designing new courses around the theme, “Water in our World.”
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The Future of the Outer Banks: Climate change’s effect on N.C.’s barrier islands
UNC geologist Laura Moore studies climate change’s effect on N.C.’s barrier islands.
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Fluid Music: UNC musician explores sounds created by water
UNC composer Lee Weisert’s installations explore sounds created by water. This feature and more water initiatives in the fall 2012 issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine.
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Reimagining The Rite
Carolina Performing Arts and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities are reimagining The Rite and its contemporary significance through The Rite of Spring at 100. Part of the celebration will be a series of once-in-a-lifetime performances at Memorial Hall with some of the leading performing artists of our time.
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Center provides ‘a place and a space’ to study the South
On a white wooden bookshelf in Jocelyn Neal’s office sits a sealed, unopened mason jar, filled to the brim with a telltale clear liquid and dressed in a homemade label. Neal is the new director of the Center for the Study of the American South.
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Stimson: Whether Obama can win with a bad economy is a definite maybe
James Stimson, Raymond Dawson Professor of Political Science, shares his thoughts on the 2012 election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Oyster Culture: Cultivating the foodways of a Virginia coastal community
Cultural historian Bernie Herman is helping to preserve and cultivate the foodways of a special Virginia coastal community.
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Troubled waters: There’s more beneath the surface of the BP oil spill
UNC researchers are finding there’s more beneath the surface of the BP oil spill.
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Total Immersion: The art and science of water in our world
Water. Life depends on it, and starting this fall the Carolina campus is becoming immersed in it. On World Water Day last spring, UNC announced that water would be the focus of a two-year, campuswide academic theme called “Water in Our World.”
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Meet the Teacher: Jean DeSaix, biology
Jean DeSaix has taught about 800 students in each of her nearly 40 years at Carolina. She was recently recognized for long-term contributions to teaching and mentoring.
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