Category: Features
Features
Creating student scientists: A five-year plan
A five-year, campus-wide learning initiative launched this spring aims to transform UNC’s undergraduate science experience — with more opportunities for hands-on research and collaboration and experiences to help students hone their analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle real-world problems.
Barbershop Talk
Program provides welcome spaces — haircuts sometimes included — for men of color to navigate UNC.
‘We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them’
Hungry and tired, the 60 Jewish prisoners nevertheless sang — without scores or orchestral accompaniment — one of the most demanding choral works ever written: Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass.
BME i4 contest weds innovation, entrepreneurship
A competition offered annually by the biomedical engineering program, a joint department between UNC and NC State, helps students transform those ideas into real-world applications, with advice from experts in business, law and manufacturing.
Behind the scenes: The Synergy Unleashed “Flight of Fancy” photo shoot
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the making of our spring 2017 magazine “Synergy Unleashed” feature package photo shoot, featuring the story “Flight of Fancy.”
PlayMakers at 40 revisits The Crucible (event spotlight)
In 1976, PlayMakers Repertory Company became the professional theater-in-residence on the UNC campus and brought Arthur Miller’s gripping play, The Crucible, to life.
Artists After Hours
Introducing Artists After Hours, an occasional feature in which we interview faculty, staff and students who pursue artistic avocations in areas not directly related to their day jobs and studies.
Poets take on topics of justice (theme: storytelling)
A close friend of the three Muslim students slain in Chapel Hill in 2015 will bring a multimedia performance he created in their honor to the UNC campus in the spring.
Exploring Muslim identities (theme: tolerance and understanding)
Popular culture tends to view the world’s great religions as monolithic identities, when the complex history of religion encompasses a spectrum of beliefs based on location, culture and myriad other factors.
Creativity, conflict and social change in the Congo (theme: global engagement)
In 2010, Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and her husband, internationally acclaimed Congolese filmmaker and activist Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, traveled to 33 colleges and universities around the country to show their film, Jazz Mama, which documents the strength of Congolese women in the face of upheaval and violence.
Food through a new lens (theme: food and the environment)
UNC cultural anthropologist Colin Thor West became interested in the lives of rural farmers and the challenges they face when he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa, from 1994 to 1996.
Popular minor connects philosophy, politics, economics (theme: an enlightened citizenry)
Anyone interested in changing the world must understand how institutions and systems work, and how the political and social environments in which they operate shape them all.
Documenting UNC’s black pioneers (theme: social justice)
Last year, student interns at the Southern Oral History Program interviewed 16 of the “Black Pioneers,” African-Americans who attended UNC-Chapel Hill from 1952 to 1972 and were the first students to desegregate the University.
Jump-starting conversations and collaborations
A Q&A with Terry Rhodes ’78, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities, about “Carolina’s Human Heart.”
Carolina’s Human Heart: Living the arts and humanities
The arts and humanities inform, inspire, energize and excite us. They bring context and meaning to the important issues of the day — and to our lives. This fall, the College of Arts and Sciences kicks off a major new initiative, “Carolina’s Human Heart: Living the arts and humanities.”