Undergraduate Education

Screenwriter/producer of ‘The Wire,’ ‘Homicide’ to speak Sept. 26

David Simon, screenwriter and producer of the TV series “The Wire” and “Homicide: Life of the Street,” will speak Sept. 26 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Simon will discuss “The End of the American Century and the Triumph of Capital Over Labor” at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. The lecture is […]

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Two win Goldwater Scholarships

Timothy Palpant and Varvara Zemskova, juniors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have won 2011 Goldwater Scholarships, among the nation’s most prestigious for undergraduate study. The awards go to outstanding college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and

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2011 Burch Fellows take on world challenges with innovative projects

Six Carolina undergraduates will head off on exciting journeys in the United States and abroad to pursue independent study projects of their own design, thanks to the Burch Fellows Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The program, supported by Lucius E. Burch III, a 1963 Carolina graduate, recognizes undergraduates at the University who

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First-generation student wins graduate school scholarship

Christopher Carter, born and raised in the small town of Elkin, bagged groceries as a teenager. Before college, he’d never ventured more than 400 miles from home. Then he won a life-changing Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And is he ever going away next fall. Carter, a UNC senior

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