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Solar Energy research team selected for Creativity Hubs Award
New award will support a team from the 2020-2021 competitive funding round seeking to revolutionize solar energy research and solar fuel production.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book: “Bewilderness” (Catapult, June 2021), a debut novel by Karen Tucker.
Getting they/them pronouns right
Carolina study shows announcing pronouns, which is often used to signal gender identity, improves how pronouns are understood.
Pégard named Beckman Young Investigator
Nicolas Pégard, assistant professor in the department of applied physical sciences in UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences, has been named a 2021 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
A Russian Flagship capstone year in Kazakhstan
Griffin McGuire traveled to Russia for the first time in 2019 for an intensive language program in St. Petersburg and is now a student in the UNC Russian Flagship Program. The federally funded language initiative is the first of its kind in North Carolina.
UNC Program for Public Discourse serves as resource in student-led civil discourse project
This spring, the Program for Public Discourse (PPD) in the College of Arts & Sciences served as a resource for a student-led project designed to foster dialogue between high schoolers in neighboring Orange and Randolph counties.
Lights on the Hill
Lights on the Hill is a monthly photo feature highlighting College of Arts & Sciences people who are putting service at the forefront. This month: Shayla Evans-Hollingsworth in the College of Arts & Sciences-Business Operations office.
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