Category: News Archive
For the Love of Language
Since 1984, over 100,000 Karen refugees have fled their homeland of Myanmar to escape civil war. Linguistics PhD students Amy Reynolds and Jen Boehm strive to understand this shift and … Read more
Storytelling and service
First-year MFA students in Gwendolyn Schwinke’s spring voice and speech class used their acting skills for good to produce an online album of international folk tales for UNC Children’s Hospital.
UNC and King’s College London host joint symposium
Intellectual rigor was met with collegial support at a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joint symposium with King’s College London on political change in Eastern Europe in Spring … Read more
Sounding the Alarm
Racial discrimination is not only a matter of sight — sound can also be racialized. Petal Samuel’s research traces colonial bans on drums and horns included in slave codes to … Read more
Meaning behind the monsters
Brendan Thornton lures students into his class with zombies, vampires and demons, then hits them with the serious stuff.
Precarious workers and COVID-19
Precarious workers are particularly vulnerable to economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member, with the help of graduate students, is leading a new study to … Read more
New Southern Futures podcast to explore the diverse and changing region of the South
The College of Arts & Sciences and the Southern Futures initiative announce the launch of Southern Futures, a podcast to reimagine the American South. The first episode, “The Push and Pull … Read more
Treul, Marinelli to lead Program for Public Discourse
Two key leadership appointments have been made in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Program for Public Discourse, a program launched in 2019 to bring together UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and … Read more
$5 million commitment to support dean’s priorities
Steve Cumbie (BA ’70, MBA ’73) invests in excellence by providing future College deans with unrestricted support.
College of Arts & Sciences recognizes 12 new distinguished professors
Congratulations to the 12 faculty who were recently appointed distinguished professors or distinguished term professors in the College of Arts & Sciences. Their new appointments take effect July 1.
Jenna Gartland awarded 2020 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship
Incoming first-year student Jenna Gartland has been awarded the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full, four-year merit scholarship in creative writing in the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel … Read more
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s book: “Meander Belt: Family, Loss and Coming of Age in … Read more
New center helps prepare the state for increasing environmental threats
The Center for Resilient Communities and Environment is working with North Carolina communities to understand their vulnerability to natural stressors and help them develop strategies to strengthen their community’s resilience.
What a world in crisis can learn from disaster-struck communities
Coastal communities in North Carolina have been hit by several major hurricanes and tropical storms within the past decade. Already burdened by ongoing disaster recovery, these communities are now facing … Read more
Light, liberty and the promotion of black art, history and culture
Massey Award winner Joseph Jordan embodies the University’s “Lux, Libertas” motto and makes the Stone Center a vital part of campus.
A Message from Dean Rhodes
This has been a deeply painful and disturbing week for our nation, with the video that has emerged of George Floyd and his horrible death in police custody in Minneapolis.
Excavating the past to serve the future
Massey Award winner Steve Davis has dedicated his life to preserving the history of North Carolina’s Native American peoples for future generations.
Class of stellar explosions found to be galactic producers of lithium
A team of researchers has combined theory with both observations and laboratory studies and determined that a class of stellar explosions, called classical novae, are responsible for most of the … Read more
Jonathan Abramowitz receives 2020 Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
Jonathan S. Abramowitz, professor of psychology and neuroscience in the College of Arts & Sciences and director of the UNC Anxiety and Stress Disorders Clinic, has received The Graduate School’s … Read more
What we’re listening to in quarantine
Eyes tired from Zoom meetings? Ready to chill with something other than Netflix? Try these faculty album recommendations. With folks stuck at home and summer concert tours canceled, The Well … Read more