PlayMakers Repertory Company has received several significant national grants in support of upcoming projects and productions. PlayMakers is the professional theater company in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A $250,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City will allow three more […]
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has selected Nicole Johnson ’14 to serve as a Young Ambassador for her study in Germany for the 2013-14 academic year.
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Incoming first-year student Madeline “Maddie” Norris of Columbia, S.C., has been awarded a 2013 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full four-year merit scholarship in creative writing, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Nathaniel Sharadin, philosophy, and Natalia Suit, anthropology, will start the new academic year with Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. The two UNC doctoral students were among only 22 nationwide to receive this prestigious award.
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Historian Malinda Maynor Lowery has been named the new director of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
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“Big Fish” author and creative writing professor Daniel Wallace is back with another fanciful whopper — a new book entitled “The Kings and Queens of Roam.”
The King of Roam: Novelist Daniel Wallace is back with another whopper Read More »
This fall, two of North Carolina’s leading theater companies, PlayMakers Repertory Company and Triad Stage, will co-produce the regional premiere of “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall. The play focuses on the last night in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. It is the theater companies’ first collaboration of this kind. PlayMakers, the professional theater
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Excavations in the Late Roman (fifth century) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s Lower Galilee, have brought to light stunning mosaics which decorated the floor.
New mosaics discovered in synagogue excavations in Galilee Read More »
Women’s studies professor Michele Tracy Berger has been named the new associate director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Michele Berger to lead Faculty Fellows Program Read More »
Shelley Clarke, the manager for the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Eve Duffy, a manager in the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, were honored at a ceremony May 22 for the ways in which they support and influence others in their jobs at UNC.
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