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 spring 2009 issue.
High Achievers:
page 4: Listen to a Webcast of Annegret Fauser’s Library of Congress talk on music in the United States during World War II.
page 4: Read about more Heels in the White House, confirmed after magazine press time.
page 5: Check out student-run record label Vinyl Records’ My Space page and watch an informational YouTube video on the company.
Features:
page 14: Read more about Karin Pfennig’s research on spadefoot toads and check out another story in Endeavors magazine.
page 20: Audio excerpts from our interview with singer/songwriter Tift Merritt on the perfect writing environment, her thoughts on musical genre and how she learned to play the guitar.
page 20: Watch a video of Tift Merritt reflecting on her Carolina experience and how UNC helped her become an artist. (video courtesy of UNC Undergraduate Admissions and Distillery Pictures.)
page 20: See Tift Merritt perform on Letterman, learn more about her photography show in Raleigh at Mahler Gallery and her concert at Progress Energy Center; check out her Web site.
page 21: Read more about Jason Sewall’s research on high-speed computers.
Highlights:
page 24: Read more about communication studies professor Patricia Parker, The Stafford Foundation and the Institute for Responsible Citizenship. Parker’s Striving Sisters Speak!!! group attended the presidential inauguration.
page 25: Read more about the Melchors, whose gift to UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences supports a new physics professorship. They were named Los Altans of the Year in 2007 by the Los Altos Town Crier.
page 28: Learn more about the Center for Community Capital and the study that showed risky credit products, not risky borrowers, are the root cause of the mortgage default crisis.
page 29: Learn more about Kenneth Lohmann’s sea turtle research and the orientation and navigation of sea turtles.
Insider View:
page 30: More on Terry Sullivan, a UNC political scientist and executive director of the White House Transition Project, which lends technical support to presidential campaigns, to presidents‑elect and to sitting presidents and their staffs to properly organize the presidential transition.
Books:
page 31: Read more on presidential historian William Leuchtenburg’s new book on Herbert Hoover.
page 32: Learn more about psychology professor Barbara Fredrickson’s new book, Positivity, and see her discuss how embracing the power of positive emotion over negative emotion can lead to a better life.
