Change can be tough. Transferring to a large university like UNC-Chapel Hill is a big change for many students and can include challenges that are not typical of the traditional college student. But these challenges also provide an opportunity for growth...
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Minrose Gwin spent years researching deep into the life of civil rights activist Medgar Evers for an academic project. To her surprise, she came away with more than one way to tell this tale of the segregated South: not only the scholarly work, but also a debut novel of note...
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When second-year graduate student Adrienne Corral dons her neoprene yellow apron, goggles and shoulder-length black gloves, she looks a bit like a scientist in a lab. Steam is rising from a 60-gallon vat of boiling water, which she has turned kelly green for the occasion...
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It’s gospel music day in professor Louise Toppin’s class, “Music as Culture: The Music of African-Americans.” The course is a survey of the music of African-Americans from its roots in Africa to hip-hop, through the lens of the classical composer...
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UNC professor Kevin Guskiewicz first became concerned about concussions when he was an athletic trainer with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1990s. More than 20 years later...
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Antoinette Newsome, now a Carolina junior majoring in management and society, knew that coming to UNC from a small rural high school would be tough. So she enrolled in the Summer Bridge program...
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Dylan Gilroy, a UNC senior, practices with his combo at the summer jazz workshop...
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biologist Jeff Dangl has been selected to join a new research program involving 15 of the nation’s top plant scientists...
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Ashley Lucas keeps thinking about a certain audience holding her new book for the very first time — incarcerated women and their families. That’s because it’s their book, too, filled with their artwork, poems and brutally honest essays about life behind prison walls...
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No one knows what will happen in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. But history paints a hopeful picture of how things might go if democratic elections are allowed...
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Kimmie Garner at Maternidad La Luz, where she did an internship last summer...
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