Issue: Spring 2016
Stories
Honoring legend, marking a milestone
When faculty, alumni and students gather in April to mark the 70th anniversary of the department of city and regional planning, they will also celebrate the 100th birthday of one of the department’s founding members, F. Stuart Chapin Jr.
$3.7 million gift endows the Karen M. Gil Internship Program in Psychology
An anonymous couple has committed $3.1 million in permanent funding for student stipends and program support, plus $600,000 in funding to continue the Gil Internship program.
Celebrating 40 years
In this remarkable photo taken in September 1949 aboard the French Liner SS De Grasse, a young Carolina graduate at the beginning of his distinguished academic career sits in the front row.
A love letter to Italy in a jar: Neal McTighe (Ph.D. Italian studies ’07)
When you taste a spoonful of Nello’s premium tomato sauce, Neal McTighe wants you to be transported to his Italian great-grandmother Angelina’s kitchen, where she prepared her beloved “gravy” for family members so often that she “wore out the linoleum in front of the stove.”
England’s first black High Sheriff: Peaches Golding (biology ’76)
From her earliest childhood, Peaches Golding had both a love of science and an international outlook.
From NPR lawyer to international photographer: Neal Jackson (political science ’65)
You’ll find this quote from French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson on Neal Jackson’s web site: “Photography is nothing — it’s life that interests me.”
Reveling in Reinvention
Three alumni forge unconventional career paths with their Carolina liberal arts degrees.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities Inspire Comic Book Nonprofit
Will Jarvis ’16 knew two things from an early age: He wanted to attend Carolina, and he wanted to work in venture capital. He counted on UNC and a liberal arts education to help him develop a life path and the skills to walk it.
PlayMakers Vivienne Benesch: Creating ‘Richer and Deeper Art’
Vivienne Benesch recently became producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mapping Infectious Disease
Health geographer Michael Emch uses maps to track infectious diseases in the developing world.
A Report Card for Poverty
UNC public policy professor Ashu Handa learned an early lesson about poverty that inspires his research and field work around the world.
Students Learn to ‘BeAM’ in Telescope-Building Class
To see the stars, sometimes you have to start in the basement.
Honoring the Unfinished Work
The Process Series, which just finished its eighth season, is a very different kind of performance series. Think of it as an arts laboratory, an incubator where works-in-progress are shown to an audience, often for the first time.
Igniting Creativity
These stories show how creativity gets our gears going — how the art of making and creating is valuable to the work of faculty, students and alumni across the arts, humanities and sciences.