- UNC College Talk, our blog.
- Coping with holiday stress, video featuring Jonathan Abramowitz, director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Clinic in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences.
- Iran in
Context: UNC College of Arts and Sciences experts Omid Safi and
Charles Kuzman discuss politics, literature, film and reform in the
Islamic Republic, on WUNC FM "State of Things." (podcast)
- Stonyfield Yogurt "CE-Yo" Gary Hirshberg on "How to Make Money and Save the World." See taped UNC lecture, Nov. 11, 2008.
Carolina Arts &
Sciences magazine is published twice a year for faculty,
alumni and friends of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel
Hill. These Online Extras supplement stories in the Fall 2008
issue.
- Page 3: View video
and podcasts of chemist Joseph DeSimone’s work. DeSimone won the
prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his innovations in polymer
chemistry.
- Page 11: Read a Q&A with Jeb Stuart (BA ’78, MA ’82),
Hollywood screenwriter and director of “Blood Done Sign My Name,” the
big-screen version of Tim Tyson’s memoir.
- Page 11: See actor Mike Wiley’s (MFA ’04) work on YouTube and find
out more about his company, Mike Wiley Productions.
Wiley is the playwright for a new one-man show based on Tim Tyson’s
memoir, “Blood Done Sign My Name.”
- Page 13: Try out computer science professor Gary Bishop’s Tar Heel Reader Web site for making books. Read more about Gary Bishop, whose research helps kids with disabilities.
- Page 15: Listen to a July 26, 2007 National Public Radio interview
on "The State of Things" with creative writing professor
Daniel Wallace about his latest book, Mr. Sebastian and The Negro
Musician. (Hear part one of the interview; part
two.) Wallace received a fall 2008 North Carolina Book Award, the Sir
Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction for Mr. Sebastian.
- Page 18: Read more about historian Robert Allen’s own movie-going experience and listen to him discuss his “Going to the Show” online project that documents movie-going in the early 20th century in North Carolina.
- Page 18: Read more about historian Robert Allen’s
research, the UNC digital archive Documenting the American South
(DocSouth) and the history of the Bijou Theatre, North Carolina's first movie
theater.
- Page 19: Read more about 2007 folklore alum John Hubbell, whose work is helping to shape the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, Miss., and the Earl Scruggs Museum in Shelby, N.C.
- Page 26: Biologist Keith Sockman studied the laying habits of
Lincoln’s sparrows and found that the early bird doesn’t always get the
worm. Listen to the song of a
Lincoln’s sparrow.
- Page 26: Watch marine scientist Hans Paerl talk about cyanobacteria — the blue-green algae that’s choking the surface of lakes and that relishes weather extremes that accompany global warming.
- Page 26: Read more about UNC-BEST, a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education that will increase the number of science teachers produced at UNC-Chapel Hill, helping to meet a critical science teacher shortage in our state. A new $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will expand the program.
- Page 27: Read more about Holy Smoke, the new barbecue book by UNC's John Shelton Reed and listen to a song by Tommy Edwards.
