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Dynamic Duo
Faculty couple Bill Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris are retiring, but their collective contributions to Southern studies and support for the university they love is far from over.
Spring 2018 Faculty Up Close, Features, Inside, Issues, Spring 2018
Saving an Endangered Language
Sociolinguistic scholar Ben Frey helps revitalize Cherokee.
Spring 2018 Faculty Up Close, Features, Inside, Spring 2018
Water Over the Bridge
A professor of American studies is helping port communities worldwide understand how rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change affect shipping and coastal infrastructures.
Fall 2017 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2017, Features, Inside, Issues
A love for Latin rhythm
Music professor Stephen Anderson, a critically acclaimed composer and pianist, has a knack for finding Latin rhythms wherever he goes — most recently, the Dominican Republic.
Fall 2017 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2017, Features, Inside, Issues
Unintended consequences
UNC political scientists Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks have been married since 1999. They are among the world’s leading experts on Brexit and Europe’s shifting political dynamics.
Spring 2017 Faculty Up Close, Inside, Issues, Spring 2017
Celebrating 40 years of jazz at Carolina
Music professor Jim Ketch (left) tells students “once you have an idea of what you want something to sound like, your body has a much easier job in making that … Read more
Spring 2017 Faculty Up Close, Inside, Issues, Spring 2017
Shedding light
Physicist Amy Oldenburg uses noninvasive biomedical optics to see inside tissue.
Fall 2016 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2016, Inside, Issues
A scholar and a mentor
Russia scholar Donald Raleigh’s next big project is Brezhnev bio.
Fall 2016 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2016, Inside, Issues
‘Food is a Story about Class, Race and Gender’
Elizabeth Engelhardt started writing about food by beginning with leftovers. Not the remains of a meal; the remains of her research.
Fall 2015 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2015, Features, Issues
Supermarkets and Locavores: Allies or Adversaries?
Large chain supermarkets may seem the antithesis of the local food movement, but UNC researchers have found that supermarkets can play a key role in building strong, sustainable local food … Read more
Fall 2015 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2015, Features, Issues