UNC sociologist Howard Aldrich has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference for his many contributions to the field of entrepreneurship research.
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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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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MIT have combined two novel technologies to create specialized versions of tiny, coated nanoparticles.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a project site for the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) five-year initiative to improve the quality of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its member institutions.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has provided approximately $657,500 in scholarships, fellowships and program support to 147 undergraduates for study abroad during 2013 and 2014.
UNC awards $657,500 in study abroad support to 147 students Read More »
“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.
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Two UNC computer science Ph.D. students have won 2013 Google Fellowships. Only 15 of the prestigious research honors were awarded in the United States and Canada.
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