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An ambassador abroad
Carolina senior Mason Harkleroad experienced a year of living and learning in Taipei, Taiwan, as a Phillips Ambassador and Boren Award recipient.
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Memorial fund honors the life of Lizzy Harding ’23
The Lizzy Anne Harding Memorial Fund has been established to honor and recognize the life of Lizzy Harding.
![UNC historian Lloyd Kramer is teaching his last class this semester — “Modern European Intellectual History,” which covers the evolution of ideas in Europe from the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century. (photo by Donn Young)](https://uncasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Favorite-3-scaled-e1712948578350-1024x684-1.jpg)
A heart for the humanities
When students question Lloyd Kramer about the value of a humanities degree, the veteran professor of history responds succinctly: It prepares you for life.
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Flowing Together: Restoring North Carolina’s drinking water
PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” are prevalent in a variety of products and linked to a range of health problems. An interdisciplinary group of UNC-Chapel Hill scientists and engineers are deploying and evaluating technologies that filter these difficult-to-remove substances from N.C.’s drinking water.
![From left, Harriet Houston Shaffer and Charles Milton Shaffer Jr. with their children, Emi Shaffer Gragnani, Caroline Shaffer Vroon and Charles Shaffer III, attending a major league baseball game together. (Photo courtesy of the Shaffer family)](https://uncasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/charliekids-1024x657-1.jpg)
Gift to support philanthropy fellow is a fitting legacy for devoted Tar Heel
The Charles M. Shaffer Jr. Distinguished Fellow in Philanthropy Fund, established in honor of a late Carolina alumnus and philanthropist, will support the work of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program in pursuit of giving back.
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A Family’s Legacy of Education and Curiosity
A strong affinity for UNC and a profound belief in the life changing influence of education inspired Nikin ’05 and Rashmi ’05 Shah to establish the Tilak and Aruna Shah Biomedical Engineering Scholarship.
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Lives guided by great books
The new Weldon Thornton Society and Teaching Award affirm the central place of the humanities in the arts and sciences tradition that has long defined a Carolina education.
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Carolina honors Tom Kenan for lifetime of giving and service
Kenan becomes the first recipient of the Lux Libertas Philanthropy Award.
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Carolina research takes the world stage
Message about tech use and teens’ well-being connects during World Economic Forum.
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Life-changing lessons from a beloved professor
Inspired by memories in and beyond the classroom, a group of alumni work to honor the late professor Kimball King.
![Bernard Boyd (left) and Bill Farthing on an archaeological dig in Israel in 1968. Farthing credits Boyd’s lectures and mentorship for cementing his interest in religious studies.](https://uncasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Favorite-crop-scaled.jpg)
Majoring in a ‘life of meaning and purpose’
Coming to Carolina was an easy decision for Bill Farthing ’70 (J.D. ’74). Almost 60 years later, it was another easy decision to give back to the place where he spent his first four years at UNC: the department of religious studies.
![Three of the 2022-2023 Agora Fellows who attended the Abbey Speaker Series event, “A Conversation with Cal Cunningham and Thom Tillis,” (from left to right): Sarah Crow, Willow Yang and Maddux Vernon](https://uncasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Agora_Fellows_1.jpg)
McNaughton Family Fund supports Program for Public Discourse
Flint McNaughton and his wife, Julie Wells McNaughton, established the McNaughton Family Fund in the Program for Public Discourse to provide for the program’s most urgent needs.
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