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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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English professor Connie Eble received the 2016 Mary Turner Lane Award.
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In May 1998, Carolina’s Center for Dramatic Art opened to the public. The $10.8 million project was completed with state appropriations totaling $9.4 million, supplemented by private funds. One of those private gifts came from Betty Kenan, whose late husband, Frank H. Kenan, left $1 million to Carolina in his will, with the stipulation that
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The public is invited to the first-ever UNC-Chapel Hill competition in which 10 Ph.D. students present their research in 3 minutes; audience members determine one winner.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s General Alumni Association (GAA) has honored three alumni who are broadly influencing their professions with its Distinguished Young Alumni Award.
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Chancellor Carol L. Folt will deliver a keynote address on UNC-Chapel Hill’s rich history as the nation’s first public university and its bright future as a top, global, public research institution at University Day on Oct. 12.
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Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, co-founder of the Deshpande Foundation, president and chairman of Sparta Group, LLC, chairman of Tejas Networks and serial entrepreneur, visited Carolina in early September to speak with students in the College of Arts and Science’s Introduction to Entrepreneurship class. While he was on campus, Deshpande shared his thoughts on how universities fit into
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