New York’s SITI Company to present work-in-progress May 18

PlayMakers and the Process Series will present SITI Company's "Who Do You Think You Are," a dramatic exploration of the principles of brain science, on May 18... [more]

Seniors Tell All: Gabriel Whaley

A former varsity letterman for the U.S. Army men’s soccer team at West Point, Gabriel Whaley has long harbored a greater goal. Growing up, his family couldn’t afford soccer camps — the focus was putting food on the table. So Whaley founded Kicking4Hunger Inc., a nonprofit that runs soccer camps and clinics for kids throughout North Carolina. .. [more]

Alum’s off-Broadway play addresses concussions in the NFL

Patrick Link graduated from UNC in 2007 with a major in dramatic art and a minor in writing for the screen and stage. Link is a member of the Youngblood Playwriting Program at the Ensemble Studio Theatre on West 52nd Street in New York. His new Off-Broadway play, “Headstrong,” is inspired by the ongoing struggles of professional athletes with head-related injuries... [more]

Neal named director of Center for the Study of the American South

UNC Music Professor Jocelyn Neal, co-editor of the journal Southern Cultures and a scholar of commercial country music and American popular music, has been appointed director of the Center for the Study of the American South, effective July 1, 2012... [more]