Student playwrights will take center stage in a new one-act festival Oct. 6-9 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Long Story Shorts: The First Annual Festival of Ten Minute Plays” is a free festival sponsored by the writing for the screen and stage program in the department of communication studies. The festival […]
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Scientists at UNC’s Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) have won big awards from the American Chemical Society. The winners are professors Weitao Yang of Duke University and John Reynolds of the University of Florida. The UNC EFRC in “Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics” was established in August 2009 in the chemistry department in UNC’s
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Barbara Fredrickson, an internationally acclaimed psychology professor in the College of Arts and Sciences who studies positive emotions and human wellbeing, will speak at UNC’s December Commencement ceremony. Chancellor Holden Thorp will preside at the Dec. 18 ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Dean E. Smith Center on Bowles Drive. Thorp chose Fredrickson in consultation
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Three universities have launched a Triangle Center for Japanese Studies that will support fellowships, research, seminars, travel, guest speakers and library development. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State and Duke universities will partner in the center, founded by a $270,000 grant from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo. The center,
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Our October calendar of events for the College of Arts and Sciences features poetry, music and drama, as well as discussions about history, the economy and global challenges. See highlights and links below. Oct. 1: North Carolina debut recital by new UNC faculty member and pianist Clara Yang, with music ranging from Handel to
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Nancie McDermott’s culinary journey has taken her full circle: from her grandmother’s big dairy farm kitchen in Orange County to the rural countryside in Thailand and back again. She writes about food for a living, but you won’t find her kitchen to be fussy or pretentious. It is a place where you can fall in love with cooking.
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Art, fashion and textiles in early modern Europe are the focus of two upcoming lectures at the Hanes Art Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The speakers will come to campus as part of the Bettie Allison Rand Lecture Series, sponsored by the art department in UNC’s College of Arts and
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Writer Al Young will receive the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture on Oct. 4 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk is at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Playmakers Theatre. Randall Kenan, an associate professor of English and creative writing at UNC, called Young “a
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UNC professor Kevin Guskiewicz first became concerned about concussions when he was an athletic trainer with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1990s. More than 20 years later.
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Kevin Weeks, a chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received an award from the National Institutes of Health to support innovative research on creating new drugs that work by binding to RNA. Weeks, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, was tapped for a EUREKA
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