UNC friends are helping to preserve and promote the whimsical windmills of beloved North Carolina folk artist Vollis Simpson. (WATCH VIDEO)
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As UNC kicks off a new, two-year academic theme around water, we asked Larry Band to break down the top five water worries for North Carolina and the world. Band is director of UNC’s Institute for the Environment and the Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor of Geography.
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Sidney Rittenberg ’41 spent 16 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail, imprisoned twice by the Communists on charges of being an American spy. It’s the stuff great films are made of; only this story is true. “The Revolutionary” is a documentary film about the UNC alum’s life story.
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Author and professor Bland Simpson will read from his latest book, “Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 13) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the Carolina captains is Grandy, who was born a slave in
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When Jonathan Boyarin started attending Stanton Street Shul, a small Manhattan synagogue, he and his wife were two of the youngest members. Over its hundred-year history, the narrow building at 180 Stanton Street has been a home base for several generations of Jewish immigrants and children of immigrants.
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Writer Josephine Humphreys, whose fiction draws from the South Carolina lowlands where she was born and bred, will receive the 2012 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Alice Rivlin, founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, will discuss “Health Reform: Will We Ever Get it Right?” on Sept. 27 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Former U.S. Cabinet official to discuss health care reform Sept. 27 Read More »
Photojournalists Steve Liss and Jon Lowenstein will discuss “American Poverty: The Hidden Story” Oct. 15 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk is at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Liss and Lowenstein come to campus for the Frank Porter Graham Lecture, sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for
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Emma Johnson jokes about how many times she changed her major, but her path to academic success illustrates the beauty of Carolina’s General College and the many research opportunities available to students.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks fifth among the nation’s best public universities for the 12th consecutive year, according to U.S. News & World Report. The rankings appear in the 2013 “America’s Best Colleges” guidebook and at www.usnews.com beginning Sept. 12. Among national public universities, UC-Berkeley ranked first, followed by UCLA and
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