Minrose Gwin spent years researching deep into the life of civil rights activist Medgar Evers for an academic project. To her surprise, she came away with more than one way to tell this tale of the segregated South: not only the scholarly work, but also a debut novel of note.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company will celebrate the holidays a little differently this year, with something for those who need a night off from family activities and all the “fa-la-la.” The professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present Edward Albee’s hilarious marital slugfest “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Nov.
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About 80 ROTC cadets and midshipmen will assemble in dress uniforms at 11 a.m. Friday (Nov. 11) for the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Veterans and town spokespeople believe that UNC’s is the only Veterans Day ceremony in Chapel Hill. The public is invited. Veterans will be
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A new research centre that will develop innovative forms of advanced 3-D communication was unveiled Nov. 9 at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The BeingThere Centre is a transnational effort spearheaded by NTU, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the computer science department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the
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NOTE: LOCATION HAS BEEN MOVED TO FED EX GLOBAL EDUCATION CENTER. Seven experts on democratization and the Arab world will participate in a panel discussion on the Arab Spring at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public program will be in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at
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“From the Renaissance to the Modern World: A Symposium in Honor of John Headley” is the title of free public programs Friday and Saturday (Nov. 11, 12) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The symposium honors John Headley, professor emeritus of history, who taught at UNC for 47 years until his recent
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Annegret Fauser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association (RMA). It is one of the highest international honors a musicologist can receive. Fauser, a professor of music and adjunct professor of women’s studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, is the 50th
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It’s gospel music day in professor Louise Toppin’s class, “Music as Culture: The Music of African-Americans.” The course is a survey of the music of African-Americans from its roots in Africa to hip-hop, through the lens of the classical composer.
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Judy Adamson learned to sew at age 10 at the hand of her mother on an Iowa farm. Adamson still remembers her first garment, a border-print, gathered skirt. Fast-forward to her college days, when she majored in speech and theater and eventually got hired by Barbara Matera Ltd., one of the foremost costume houses in
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When second-year graduate student Adrienne Corral dons her neoprene yellow apron, goggles and shoulder-length black gloves, she looks a bit like a scientist in a lab. Steam is rising from a 60-gallon vat of boiling water, which she has turned kelly green for the occasion.
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