Diversity Archives - Page 7 of 7 - College of Arts and Sciences

Kenneth Stern discussed "Antisemitism as a Form of Hate" as the signature event in the College's Countering Hate initiative. (photo by Donn Young)

Strong democracy is essential to combating forms of hate, antisemitism expert says

“Hate has been around for as long as human beings have existed. We’ve always had this capacity to define and vilify another … [yet] we don’t look at hate the … Read more

Student Profile: Daniel Reyes

Daniel Reyes, a master’s student in folklore, is a filmmaker with interests in documentary film, Latinx diaspora of the South and the diverse traditional music genres of Texas and Mexico, … Read more

How Diamond Holloman finds resilience in Lumberton

Diamond Holloman, a Ph.D. candidate in Carolina’s Environment, Ecology and Energy program, is the first recipient of a post-Florence disaster relief grant from the Carolina Center for Public Service. She … Read more

Elayna Locklear is UNC-Chapel Hill’s second American Indian Udall scholar

Elayna Locklear, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, has been awarded the Udall scholarship to help … Read more

Conghe Song studies the relationship between land use, change in vegetation, and climate change -- and social impacts of environmental programs.

Restoring Rural China

Geographer Conghe Song studies the relationship between land use, change in vegetation and climate change — and social impacts of environmental programs.

Hong-An Truong awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship

Associate professor of art Hong-An Truong has been awarded a prestigious 2019 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, … Read more

Carolina F1RSTS and Carolina Graduate F1RSTS get together to celebrate first-generation student success as part of the National First-Generation College Student Celebration.

UNC-Chapel Hill receives national recognition for supporting first-generation students

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a “First Forward Advisory Institution” and is among the inaugural cohort of academic institutions nationwide being recognized for their … Read more

Pictured in group photo: 2019 Diversity Awards. Alumni – Howard Lee ’66, Chapel Hill’s mayor for three terms, Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, NC Senator for 10 years, Chairman of the NC State Board of Education and Executive Director of the NC Education Cabinet. In retirement, founded the Howard Lee Institute. He earned his Master’s degree in Social Work from Carolina. Staff – O.J. McGhee, Manager, Instructional Media Services, Gillings School of Global Public Health Faculty – (TIE) Deb Aikat, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism and Evan Ashkin, Professor, UNC Family Medicine, Founder, NC FIT program, Physician, Prospect Hill Community Health Center, Regional Medical Director, Community Care of NC Graduate/Professional Student – Mariel Marshall, Master’s student of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling in Allied Health Sciences. Undergraduate Student – Jermaine Bryant (senior, Johns Creek, GA), a Classics major Intergroup Collaboration – Diversity and Student Success in the Graduate School. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

Six individuals and one program receive 2019 Diversity Awards

Using the tagline “an inclusive blue begins with you,” Carolina’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion presented its 11th annual awards April 29. Jermaine Bryant, senior majoring in classics in the … Read more

Kristen Gardner, student in the Chancellor’s Science Scholars program at UNC-Chapel Hill. (photo by Lars Sahl)

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Chancellor’s Science Scholars program demonstrates success

A multi-institution study focuses on the replications of the UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars program at Penn State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. The program is designed to increase diversity in STEM fields.

View of the Davie Poplar on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 12, 2018. (Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)

New initiative to examine ‘race, memory and reimagining the public university’

A new shared learning initiative in the College of Arts & Sciences will support student learning and discussions about heritage, race, post-conflict legacies, politics of remembrance and contemporary projects of … Read more

Julia Gibson (right) stars as Lil Bit with Jeffrey Blair Cornell as Uncle Peck in "How I Learned to Drive." (photo by HuthPhoto)

PlayMakers presents Paula Vogel’s ‘How I Learned to Drive’

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “How I Learned to Drive” by Tony Award-nominated playwright Paula Vogel. The production, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, will run from April … Read more

Students in Glenn Hinson's "Descendants Project" class interviewed three generations of descendants of Warren County lynching victims at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. (photo by Hannah Evans) (photo shows a night-time view of the museum with the Washington Monument in the background).

‘Much learning and healing happened’

Through a fall 2018 research-intensive QEP class, students interviewed nine descendants of a 1921 North Carolina lynching victim at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, … Read more

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