PlayMakers and the Process Series will present SITI Company’s “Who Do You Think You Are,” a dramatic exploration of the principles of brain science, on May 18.
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Public policy professor Ashu Handa has won two research grants (each worth $634,000 over 2 years) to evaluate social cash transfer programs in Malawi and Zimbabwe. Handa is chair of the public policy department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also is a fellow
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UNC senior history major Sarah Ransohoff has won the Elie Wiesel Prize for Ethics for her essay on oil and slavery. Ransohoff, who also is pursuing a minor in environmental science, is from Chapel Hill. Her essay is titled: “The Ethical Issues of Energy Dependence: Slavery in 1850s America and Oil Today.” Winners receive a
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Heather Williams, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship to support her work on a documentary film on Jamaican immigrants. New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities who seek to acquire training outside their disciplines. According to
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UNC historian Heather Williams tells the stories of slave members’ search for lost family members after the Civil War in her new book, “Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery.”
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Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that a U.S. scientist or engineer can receive.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will speak, and he and four other luminaries will receive honorary degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the May 13 Commencement ceremony.
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Two academic advisers in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences have won 2016 national advising awards. The awards, given by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), were awarded based on significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising. The winners include: Nikki Glenos, an adviser in the fine arts and humanities division, who has been
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Gregory “G.A.” Lipton, a doctoral candidate in religious studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences who are addressing questions of ethical and religious values.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill department of dramatic art will present a second staged reading of “8,” a new play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, in partnership with Raleigh Little Theatre.
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