Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine is sent twice a year to faculty, alumni and friends who have made a gift to UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. If you would like to receive the magazine and our periodic e-news bulletins, please send your name, address and e-mail address to: Dee Reid.
The fall 2009 edition includes new online extras: videos, podcasts, additional interviews and more.
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Contents:
Features
- 10 Years Later. First-year seminars and undergraduate research have transformed the Carolina experience. page 6
- From Photons to Fuels. $17.5 million federal grant launches solar fuels center. page 12
- ‘Abroad’ in the Cherokee Nation. Students experience new summer course in Tahlequah, Okla. page 16
Departments
- From the Dean: Create, innovate, educate, connect. inside front cover
- High Achievers: Students score big awards, Armitage gets an A+ for teaching, faculty win five Guggenheims, student entrepreneurs help hospitals in Ghana, Ernst earns a triple, and more. page 2
- Profile: Emmanuel Chan is first ‘Lost Boy of Sudan’ to graduate from UNC. page 18
- Spotlights: Prof’s TV sitcom a hit with students, Anoop Desai is enjoying life after ‘American Idol,’ Karen Gil brings experience to new job as dean. pages 19-21
- Highlights: Cultivating positive emotions, ancient bird named for UNC expert, decoding the AIDS virus genome, old rocks and new evolution clues, science teachers serve North Carolina, Joe Kampf ’66 supports economics, and more. page 22
- College Bookshelf: New books from faculty and alumni explore roots of the Mississippi blues, the Supreme Court, Southern culture, binge-eating, faith in the Haitian diaspora, new poetry and short-short stories, Sesame Street, the New Testament, and more. page 26
- Honor Roll: We thank our many alumni and friends for their generous support of the College of Arts and Sciences. page 28
- Coming Soon: American humorist and writer Roy Blount Jr., Global climate change expert James Hansen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones, and more. inside back cover
Past Issues:
Spring 2009 (large)
Spring 2009 (small)
Fall 2008 (large)
Fall 2008 (small)
Spring 2008 (small, 5.4 MB)
Spring 2008 (large, 33.9 MB)
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
