College of Arts and Sciences News Archive

Nineteen Students Selected as Phillips Ambassadors for Study Abroad in Asia

May 6, 2016 / Global Programs

Seventeen undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and one undergraduate from Duke University have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for Summer and Fall 2016 study abroad programs in Asia. In addition, one history doctoral candidate was awarded a Phillips Graduate Ambassador travel award for research in Japan this summer.

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For Global Heel Anna Kirey ’15, Advancing LGBTQI Rights Requires Regional Expertise

May 6, 2016 / Diversity, Global Programs

Anna Kirey ’15 M.A. understands the value of regional studies. She has had a truly global education, studying in Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Costa Rica, Sweden, the U.S. and her home country, Ukraine.

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Mueller honored with Lifesaving Research Award from Korey Stringer Institute

May 5, 2016 / Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Fred Mueller, professor emeritus of exercise and sport science and retired director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research based at UNC-Chapel Hill, is the receipient of the Korey Stringer Institute’s Lifesaving Research Award.

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Senior Shannon McKerlie: ‘What am I going to be doing for my country?’

May 5, 2016 / Social Sciences, Undergraduate Education

It’s going to be a big weekend for graduating senior Shannon McKerlie. On the morning before Commencement on the steps of South Building, Cadet McKerlie will become 2nd Lieutenant McKerlie.

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Global studies master’s program graduates first class

May 5, 2016 / Global Programs

Eleven UNC students will become the first graduating class of the MA in global studies program on May 8. The program combines scholarly rigor and the development of practical skills to prepare students for careers in a globalized world.

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Women ratchet themselves up the social ladder, one high heel at a time

May 4, 2016 / Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Fashion seems to embrace two opposite goals — fitting in with the crowd and standing out from it. Now new UNC research reveals that the choice to fit in or stand out depends on who exactly the crowd is – and the size of their high heels. That is, women adjust their fashion to look similar to the rich but different from the poor.

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Midwest Victorian Studies Association honors doctoral candidate for dissertation research

May 4, 2016 / Fine Arts & Humanities

Doreen Thierauf, a doctoral candidate in English at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently received a prestigious dissertation research award from the Midwest Victorian Studies Association.

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UNC-Chapel Hill scientists find likely cause for recent southeast U.S. earthquakes

May 3, 2016 / Natural Sciences & Mathematics

A new study shows pieces of the underside of the North American Plate peel off, sink into the mantle –- a process likely to produce more earthquakes in the southeastern U.S. in the future.

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Dramatic art lecturer receives arts grant for project focusing on men on death row

May 2, 2016 / Fine Arts & Humanities

UNC dramatic art lecturer Kathryn Hunter-Williams and her colleague Lynden Harris have received a MAP Fund grant to support the project “Serving Life,” which explores race, class, compassion and justice with men on death row and those sentenced as children to life without parole.

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