Plants’ and animals’ seasonal cycles, such as flowering dates and migration patterns, have shifted in recent decades due to climate change. Now a new study seems to indicate that some human weather-related behavior also is being influenced by global warming. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found peak attendance in U.S.
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UNC humanities students who have dreamed of studying at Oxford University in the United Kingdom can now apply for a one-term scholarship to do so, beginning in October 2012. St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University is seeking applications for the first annual Christopher Mead Armitage and Pauline Brooks Armitage Scholarship for Visiting Students. The application deadline is
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People on Carolina’s bustling campus have been walking over history – literally – for two centuries. With the discovery of pieces of English-manufactured and locally made china plates dating to the early 1800s as well as glass, brick fragments and bits of animal bones unearthed beside Vance Hall, University researchers believe they have discovered the
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Ai “Anna” Lam, MD, who graduated from the College with an undergraduate degree in biology in 1996, is the recipient of an American Thoracic Society (ATS) Foundation/Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago Research Grant. Lam is currently an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The grant provides $40,000 in funding per
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As we head into the holiday season, you will find plenty of concerts, plays, films and talks on our December calendar. Nov. 30- Dec. 18: PlayMakers presents Edward Albee’s knock-down, drag-out love story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, starring Ray Dooley and Julie Fishell as George and Martha. Tickets and schedule, 919.962.7529. http://playmakersrep.org Dec. 1:
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It may seem unorthodox for a geologist, a male one at that, to write a history of women’s higher education, but the retired professor who was on the Carolina faculty from 1975 to 1997 soon explains his interest.
Jay and Babette Tanenbaum of Atlanta may not be Carolina alumni or have a strong connection to the university, but when they found out about the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, they were impressed with its work and wanted to help.
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Studying Mandarin in Tapei to broaden research on Chinese-language cinema. Writing a full-length book of poetry. Pursuing a Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard University. These are just a few of the pursuits Carolina’s Thomas Wolfe Scholars have been up to since they graduated.
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For Barbara “Bobby” Gitenstein and Don Hart, choosing to support the humanities at UNC was an easy decision.
Both earned their doctorate degrees in the humanities at Carolina — Gitenstein in English in 1975 and Hart in philosophy in 1981. The couple grew up in the same small town in south Alabama and chose Carolina for its “excellent” English and philosophy departments. They formed lasting relationships with several faculty members who served as important mentors for them in their careers.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumnus Howard R. Levine, chairman and CEO of Family Dollar Stores Inc., has created an endowment to support undergraduate and graduate students in Jewish studies at his alma mater. The Howard R. Levine Student Excellence Fund in Jewish Studies, created through a $500,000 pledge, will support academic studies
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