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Yole (“come together”) connects UNC, Africa
“Yole” means come together. And Yole!Africa US is helping students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and students at UNC come together to create positive change through cultural exchange. ..
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How our conversational “mistakes” may help us get our point across
UNC psychologist and linguist Jennifer Arnold found that our conversational missteps, like saying "uh" and "um," sometimes actually help our listeners get what we're saying...
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Mapping Historical Memory
A new UNC digital collection, Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina, is creating a portrait of the state’s history through monuments, shrines and public art. UNC historian Fitz Brundage is the scholarly adviser to the project...
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Sprout UNC: Produce with a Purpose
Have you got the gardening bug yet? Spring is just around the corner, and with it the promise of fresh vegetables. Sprout UNC makes it easy, by bringing those fresh veggies straight from a local farm to you. ..
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Entrepreneurship 1.0
Everything about this new entrepreneurship class was unusual. It focused on making a difference in the world. Professors told the students it was OK to fail. Instructional technology and a star lineup of guest speakers engaged students in new ways. Welcome to Entrepreneurship 1.0...
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Classroom is community for professor Pollock
Communication studies professor Della Pollock was collecting the stories of alumni of Chapel Hill’s former all-black high school for an oral history project when one man’s statement caught her off guard...
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Engaged Learning: Spanish for the Professions
The Spanish for the Professions Minor in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences prepares students for bilingual careers in the business, communications and healthcare professions. ..
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LGBT legislators have a significant effect on laws that promote equality

The presence of legislators who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender has a direct, significant impact on pro-LGBT legislation around the world, according to new research from a political scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... [more]

Hall honored with Mary Turner Lane Award

Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, founding director of Carolina’s Southern Oral History Program, has won the 2013 Mary Turner Lane Award for outstanding contributions to the lives of women students, faculty, staff and administrators at Carolina... [more]

Professor Kevin Weeks (far right) with undergraduate researchers, from left, Nicholas Watts, Rory O'Kane and Eva Archer. (photo by Lars Sahl)

Undergraduates publish in journal Biochemistry

Work entirely designed, implemented, and interpreted by UNC undergraduates has been published in Biochemistry and is highlighted on the journal web page... [more]

UNC historian Fitz Brundage in front of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial on UNC's campus, which he says is one of the most dense commemorative landscapes in the state. (photo by Beth Lawrence.)

Mapping Historical Memory: New digital collection documents the state’s history through monuments, shrines, public art

A new UNC digital collection, Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina, is creating a portrait of the state’s history through monuments, shrines and public art. UNC historian Fitz Brundage is the scholarly adviser to the project... [more]

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