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Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies Celebrates its First Endowment
The Gafinowitz family has made a lasting pledge to the department of African, African American and diaspora studies in honor of professor Eunice Sahle’s excellence in teaching, research, leadership and
A Doctor’s Love of Ancient Medicine Leads to Gift For Classics Department
When Maury Hanson died at age 100 last spring, he bequeathed an unrestricted planned gift to the department of classics and to University Libraries.
Carolina Scientists Earn Prestigious Keck Award
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How did life on Earth begin?
New Initiative Will Study Technology and the Adolescent Brain
When Jim Winston Jr. (’B.A. history ’81, Ph.D. psychology ’92) walks his kids into school, he passes through throngs of older students — heads down, glued to their cell phones.
Summer Bridge Helped a Pediatrician Get a Solid Start at Carolina
Leon Livingston ’91, a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee, credits a UNC program called Summer Bridge with helping him jumpstart his academic career.
Sharing Jewish Life and Culture Across the State
Barry and Jan Schochet grew up in Asheville in the 1950s and ’60s, the children of Jewish parents who owned several downtown stores that sold clothing and dancewear. Back then,
A Renewed Commitment to Study the Science of Moral Understanding
Through the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, UNC-Chapel Hill scholars are undertaking critical and timely research to understand what drives intolerance and how to address it.
New Gift Endows and Names the College of Arts and Sciences Deanship
Craver family deanship will advance scholarship, discovery, strategic priorities.
Collins Named Senior Associate Dean for Development
Anne H. C. Collins has been named senior associate dean for development in the College of Arts and Sciences and executive director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation.
UNC-Chapel Hill Becomes Newest Partner Institution of KEEN
Applied physical sciences receives grant to promote an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduates.