News Archive
Art Changes Everything: The Peck Effect
When Carolina alumnus Sheldon Peck and his wife, Leena, gave a rare collection of 17th-century European masterworks — including seven Rembrandts — to the Ackland Art Museum, it became the nation’s first public university art museum to own a collection of Rembrandt drawings and one of only two universities to do so.
A Labor of Love
I first heard about the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program through my English 105 course during my freshman year at UNC: the unit project for our ‘Writing in the Natural Sciences’ unit was a mock SURF application.
December graduate Amaya Martinez Mesa: ‘No other place for me to be’
It took just one semester for Amaya Martinez Mesa to feel like she was home.
Enjoy ‘an intimate evening of storytelling’ with Ray Dooley in PlayMakers’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
Bring the whole family for an intimate evening of storytelling with PlayMakes Repertory Company legend Ray Dooley in “A Christmas Carol” Dec. 13-23 in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art.
UNC-Chapel Hill receives 10-year accreditation from regional agency
The Board of Trustees of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges reaffirmed Carolina’s accreditation for the next 10 years at the board’s Dec. 5 meeting in Dallas.
Humanities Happy Hour brings Fellows to the public
The Humanities Happy Hour is more than just an appeal to the alliteration lovers among us. It is a collaborative program of events shared by Carolina Public Humanities (CPH) and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH).
Blending comedy and academia
Most professors expect students to use proper grammar in their classes, but in English 307, students are encouraged not to. The class is a grammar class. Students learn concepts such as parts of speech, double negatives and malapropisms, but as they learn them, they also are required to incorporate them into sketch comedy.