No one knows what will happen in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. But history paints a hopeful picture of how things might go if democratic elections are allowed.
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The number of young adults in the United States with high blood pressure may be much higher than previously reported, according to a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Researchers analyzed data on more than 14,000 men and women between 24 and 32 years old in 2008 from
Nearly one in five young adults has high blood pressure, study shows Read More »
Frank Baumgartner, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received a career achievement award from the American Political Science Association (APSA).
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Ashley Lucas keeps thinking about a certain audience holding her new book for the very first time — incarcerated women and their families. That’s because it’s their book, too, filled with their artwork, poems and brutally honest essays about life behind prison walls.
Razor Wire Women: New book brings together those shaped by prison life Read More »
Kimmie Garner at Maternidad La Luz, where she did an internship last summer.
Straddling two worlds: Studying women and childbirth at the U.S.-Mexico border Read More »
An academic department chair and a senior undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences won 2011 University Diversity Awards from the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. The honors were presented for “significant contributions to the enhancement, support and/or furtherance of diversity on the campus and in the community.” Terry Rhodes, professor and chair
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Brooke Bauer, a Ph.D. student in history in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, will spend part of her summer enrolled in an intensive Cherokee language course offered by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, N.C. She will then come back to Carolina in the fall, and serve as a teaching assistant for
Graduate student will study and teach Cherokee language, thanks to new fellowship Read More »
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies
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Dean Karen Gil has made enhancing faculty diversity a top priority for the College of Arts and Sciences. “If we want our faculty to help solve the world’s greatest challenges, we must recruit excellent scholars and teachers from diverse backgrounds,” Gil said.
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Three Ph.D. students in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences have won fellowships for their research on ethical and religious values from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation. Twenty-one Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows were named for the 2011-2012 academic year. These fellowships, created in 1981, remain the nation’s
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