Peter Grauer ’68 believes in how Honors Carolina can change students’ lives. Grauer, chair of worldwide media company Bloomberg L.P., served for more than 15 years as chair of the Honors Carolina Advisory Board. A recent $3 million gift commitment will endow the Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean for Honors Carolina Fund. The endowment will …
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Mitch Prinstein is a guest on “Academic Minute,” talking about whether perception is reality.
John McGowan, the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English and comparative literature, is the 2016 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) Fellow.
Biologist Amy Gladfelter of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar, a designation awarded to “early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field.”
Senior Pranavi Sanka is an undergraduate researcher focusing on developing new therapies for a subset of breast cancer.
National Public Radio’s award-winning legal correspondent Nina Totenberg will discuss “The Supreme Court and the Presidency” on Sept. 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Doors will open at 5 p.m. for the free event, and no ticket is required. Totenberg will reveal the intrigue behind the headlines in this …
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From rivers in the backcountry of Alaska, down the Sierra mountains, up into space, and through commercial waterways in North Carolina — UNC researchers are measuring the world’s water and developing solutions to prevent it from running dry.
Editor’s note: F. Stuart Chapin Jr. died on May 2, 2016, just a month after celebrating his 100th birthday. When faculty, alumni and students gathered in April to mark the 70th anniversary of the department of city and regional planning, they also celebrated the 100th birthday of one of the department’s founding members, F. Stuart …
A new UNICEF report presents evidence on how inequality affects children in high income countries. Ashu Handa, a professor in the department of public policy in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, is currently serving as Chief of Economic & Social Policy at UNICEF’s Office of Research — Innocenti. He leads the research team at Innocenti responsible for developing the Report Card.
Chemist Joseph DeSimone will receive a National Medal of Technology and Innovation — among the nation’s highest honors for advancing innovation in science. The award will be presented at the White House early next year.
