PlayMakers Repertory Company announces the fifth Summer Youth Conservatory. Applications are due March 2; auditions are March 10-11 for the unique educational and performance opportunity.
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An interracial marriage and landmark Supreme Court case that changed the course of history is the subject of a film screening and symposium March 1-2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Film, symposium examine an interracial marriage that changed history Read More »
An innovative program called Carolina Firsts that targets first-generation students at UNC has won an award from the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center.
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The emails and text messages never stop, and Pam Lach knows neither can she. Lach is the new manager for the Digital Innovation Lab, which will focus on the use of digital technologies to advance the humanities.
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A new study released Feb. 8 by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security documents that concerns of counterterrorism officials about a potential wave of homegrown violent extremism have not materialized over the past two years
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When music professor Mark Katz says he wants his students to have a hands-on learning experience, he means it. During one of the first classes of the semester, he took 15 first-year students into his office to check out his turntables.
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Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian McBride and the Inside Straight band will headline this year’s Carolina Jazz Festival Feb. 23-25 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Now you don’t just have to muddle through February. There are plenty of cultural and intellectual goodies on the College calendar, including the 35th Annual Carolina Jazz Festival. For more events, visit http://events.unc.edu/cal/main/showMain.rdo Feb. 1: Non-fiction author Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Around the Block and Mexican Enough), will read from her work. 3:30 pm, Wilson Library,
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Tia Davis, a UNC junior studying public relations and entrepreneurship, won the University’s 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship, including a $1,500 award. Runners up, who won $1,000 awards, are journalism major Jeremy Knight and psychology major Asif Kahn.
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In February and March, the art department will bring various artists and art scholars to the UNC campus through the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art. The first, part of the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture, is an opera-masquerade titled “Four Electric Ghosts” by Mendi + Keith Obadike. Mendi
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