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Innovative, interdisciplinary health communication research wins $3 million grant to combat isolation in young adults

Even before U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a dire warning this spring about the loneliness epidemic in America, two UNC researchers had already teamed up to work on a solution.


Zhukhovitskiy granted Army Early Career Award

Alex Zhukhovitskiy, assistant professor of chemistry, has been selected to receive an Early Career Award from the Army Research Office, a directorate of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory.


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Four UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members receive Fulbright Scholar Award

Four UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members — Patrick Davison, Anthony Hackney, Carissa Hessick and Pamela Lothspeich — have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2023-2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.


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Savor the stories of Southern food

What we eat helps us understand history, cultures, traditions and each other, say two Carolina experts — Michelle Lanier and Elizabeth Engelhardt.


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Center for Slavic, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies receives National Resource Center Designation

The Center for Slavic, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) at UNC-Chapel Hill has been designated as a National Resource Center (NRC) for language and area studies by the U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education office.


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Eskandarian receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Saba Eskandarian was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER program offers NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty.


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Recent music graduate Matthew Svec awarded Fulbright

Recent music graduate Matthew Svec, B.A. 2023, has big plans for next year. This spring, Svec was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award to study at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.


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