American Sociological Association honors S. Philip Morgan

/ Social Sciences

  S. Philip Morgan and co-authors Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Christine Bachrach and Hans Peter Kohler have received the 2012 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography. Morgan is a professor in UNC’s sociology department and director of the Carolina Population Center (CPC). The award was presented to Morgan by the American Sociological Association’s […]

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PlayMakers offers more open captioned performances

/ Fine Arts & Humanities

PlayMakers Repertory Company is bringing back open captioning at selected performances during its 2012-2013 season. Open captioning enhances play-going enjoyment by allowing the audience to read along with the play. A screen is visible to the audience, which displays the text of the play as the actors are speaking it. A professional open captioning operator

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Roots and Microbes: Bringing a complex underground ecology into the lab

/ Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Beneath the surface of the earth, an influential community of microbes mingles with plant roots. In the first large-scale analysis of those communities, led by UNC’s Jeff Dangl, scientists have now catalogued and compared the hundreds of types of bacteria that associate with the roots of one model plant.

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Murray and DeSimone named American Chemical Society fellows

/ Natural Sciences & Mathematics

The American Chemical Society has named Carolina chemistry professors Royce Murray and Joseph DeSimone as ACS fellows. The new class of 96 fellows will be honored at the society’s fall national meeting in Philadelphia in August. The ceremony will be hosted by ACS Immediate Past-President Nancy B. Jackson. “ACS is especially proud to honor these

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