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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 spring 2009 edition includes new online extras: videos, podcasts, additional interviews and more.
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Contents:
Features
- 2GTBT? (Too Good to Be True?) Nope, the Carolina seniors we profile in these pages are the real thing. page 6
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Evolutionary Revelations. “New innovator” Karin Pfennig wins major award to support her research on spadefoot toads. page 12
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Top Notch. Abigail Panter and Ted Mouw earn high marks for great teaching. page 15
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A New Chapter for Tift Merritt. It’s been an exciting year for the Carolina-bred singer/songwriter now based in the Big Apple. page 18
Departments
- From The Dean: How learning and discovery can
change the world inside front cover
- High Achievers:
North Carolina Awards, Heels in the White House, Tar Heel of the Year, NEH music fellowships, and more. page 2
- Profile: Graduate student Jason Sewall is
harnessing the power of high-speed computers. page 21
- Highlights:
New gifts to American studies and physics, UNC mentor takes teen group to inauguration, improving prostate cancer treatment, helping sea turtles find their way home, new center studies natural disasters, and more. page 22
- Insider View: A UNC political scientist gives the
inside scoop on who spends the most time with the president. page
30
- College Bookshelf:
Eminent presidential historian William Leuchtenburg on Hoover and FDR, plus Tar Heel voices from the past, and faculty revelations on obesity, Cuba, Hemingway, democratic revolutions, the Drug War, the power of positivity, the writing life, African-American perspectives on the South, and more. page 31
- Final Point: Music hits the right note with the opening of the new Kenan Music Building. inside back cover
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