Category: Fine Arts & Humanities

Sharing Jewish life and culture across the state
Barry and Jan Schochet grew up in Asheville in the 1950s and ’60s, the children of Jewish parents who owned several downtown stores that sold clothing and dancewear. Back then, … Continued

25 earn 2021 University Teaching Awards
This year’s winners persevered during the pandemic to remain focused on their students.

Philosophy as public service
Innovative Carolina programs are bringing philosophy to prisons, retirement homes and high schools.

COVID-response collaborative blends data science, community wisdom
UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and graduate students create the I4 Boundary Spanners program to address local COVID-19 concerns by combining data analysis with firsthand community perspectives.

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. Featured book: Ella Baker’s Catalytic … Continued

Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni, published on the first Friday of each month. This month we feature … Continued

PlayMakers Repertory Company announces first virtual benefit
“Will & Grace” star Debra Messing headlines staged reading of Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron’s “Love, Loss and What I Wore” based on the book by Ilene Beckerman.

Learning about the broader contexts of food
Focusing on topics ranging from North Carolina’s pork industry to school lunches, the College of Arts & Sciences’ “Southern Food Studies: Food and Race in America” course is causing some … Continued

Innovative faculty enrich learning through global collaboration
Whether the subject is music, medical anthropology or the business of health care, UNC COIL courses connect students with the world.

Arts innovator Gage Tarlton debuts new play Nov. 28
Tarlton will present a virtual reading of his new play, “sons that wear dresses and mothers that love sweet potatoes.” “It’s about losing everything and moving forward anyway. It’s about … Continued

New gift endows and names the College of Arts & Sciences deanship
Craver family deanship will advance scholarship, discovery, strategic priorities.

Elizabeth Olson is awarded the George Johnson Prize
Elizabeth Olson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill, is the 2020 recipient of the George Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an Institute for Arts … Continued

Carolina People: Clara Yang
Clara Yang, associate professor and head of keyboard studies in the music department, speaks about her work amidst COVID-19.

Finding engagement in solitude
Associate Professor Nicholas DiEugenio is finding innovative ways to re-engage musicians with his new mini-series, “Alone/Engaged.”

Virtual Symposium Explores Love and Desire in Modern Iran and the Diaspora
The Persian Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently hosted a virtual symposium entitled “Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and … Continued

Reppin’ Research: Brett Harris
OUR Student Ambassadors are a group of undergraduate researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill who work with the Office for Undergraduate Research in the College of Arts & Sciences to promote a … Continued

Hettleman Award winner Andrea Bohlman
Andrea Bohlman is an associate professor in the Department of Music and a recipient of the 2020 Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

Hettleman Award winner William Sturkey
William Sturkey is an associate professor in the Department of History and a recipient of the 2020 Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

Old East stories
Old East, which has changed along with the University, is the setting for an alternative story about Carolina’s foundation.

Fall 2020 Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine is now online
The fall 2020 issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences — our first virtual-only issue in our 15 years of publication, a change made due to the pandemic — is now … Continued