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Lifelong Love of Theater Leads Alumna to Support PlayMakers’ Artistic Director
Joanne Mills Garrett and husband, Peter Garrett, created an endowment to fund the producing artistic director position for PlayMakers Repertory Company.
$25 Million Gift Helps Secure Graduate Students’ Future
A transformational $25 million bequest to the UNC College of Arts and Sciences ensures a bright future for graduate students. The gift from an anonymous donor will enable the College to compete for the most promising graduate students for generations to come.
Musicology Doctoral Student Stella Zhizhi Li Receives 2019-2020 Glass Graduate Fellowship
Stella Zhizhi Li, a UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student in musicology, has been selected to serve as the Harold J. Glass USAF Graduate Fellow for academic year 2019-2020.
Ishna J. Hall: Beloved Tar Heel, Colleague and Friend
The College of Arts and Sciences is mourning the unexpected loss of former Carolina colleague and treasured friend Ishna Hall.
Textile, Bedding and Soft Goods Company LeighDeux Awards Scholarships to Entrepreneurship Students
Two enterprising women entrepreneurs in the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship are the 2019 recipients of the LeighDeux Women in Entrepreneurship Excellence Scholarship: Krishna Patel ’20 and Anastasia Soule ’19.
Distinguished Service Awards Presented to Bill and Marcie Ferris, David Pardue
Awards for distinguished service to the College of Arts and Sciences were presented to William R. “Bill” and Marcie Cohen Ferris, both Carolina professors emeritus, and alumnus David Pardue Jr. ’69 at a meeting of the Arts and Sciences Foundation Board of Directors.
Rhodes Appointed Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
As Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences since 2012, Rhodes has long championed the value of the arts and humanities to a well-rounded education throughout her more than three decades at Carolina.
Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne to Speak on Black Holes, Time Travel and More
Kip Thorne’s lecture, “My Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe: From Black Holes and Wormholes to Time Travel and Gravitational Waves” will take place on Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Guskiewicz Appointed Interim Chancellor
A neuroscientist and internationally recognized expert on sport-related concussions, Kevin Guskiewicz joined Carolina’s faculty in 1995 and has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since January 2016. As interim chancellor, he will chart a course for the University of North Carolina at
Supporting STEM Scholars at UNC
The Sherman Fairchild Foundation recently donated $10 million to the Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program. The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust pledged a $5 million grant, provided the University raises an additional $10 million in matching gifts by the end of 2023.
Jarrahi Family Supports New Professorship in Persian Studies
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Chapel Hill College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce a new tenure-track assistant professor position in Islamic studies with a specialization in Persian/Iranian studies, funded by the newly established Dr. Ali Jarrahi Term Profess
Four Honored with Davie Awards
The four recipients of the 2018 William Richardson Davie Award are Munroe Cobey of Chapel Hill, James Peacock of Chapel Hill, Kay Massey Weatherspoon of Charlotte and Leonard Wood of Atlanta, Georgia.
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