Issue: Spring 2018
Stories
UNC’s Air Force ROTC named best small detachment in Southeast
UNC’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 590 was recently named best small detachment in the Southeast region. The Southeast Region encompasses 38 detachments in nine states and Puerto Rico.
Carolina Quoted
When national and international media need experts to comment on and analyze news and trends, they turn to Carolina faculty and alumni.
Learning and Writing Center gift helps ensure students’ success
In addition to significant planned gifts to the College that benefit scholarships, technology and innovation in the Learning and Writing Center, and diversity initiatives in the department of computer science, couple Alex Yong and Wendi Sturgis have created an immediate-use fund for the Learning and Writing Center.
Caldwell family gift will encourage collaboration between American studies, Ackland Art Museum
When the Caldwell family decided they wanted to give back to UNC-Chapel Hill — a place that left a lasting impression on each of them — it made sense that their gift would revolve around American studies and the arts.
Winning Words: The stickwork artist
Patrick Dougherty says when you’re trying to elicit feelings and emotions through art, “that’s not unlike creating a great novel.”
Winning Words: The health care advocate
English alumna Elizabeth G. Taylor values the power of language as a national nonprofit director who advocates for access to health care.
Winning Words: The sports announcer
Emmy Award-winning sports announcer Jim Lampley tells young people interested in his profession that “in live television commentary, it’s all about language skills.”
Explore more: New books by College faculty and alumni
Looking for new books for your bookshelf? Explore these new books by faculty and alumni of the College of Arts & Sciences.
“Blue Morpho”
Evana Bodiker is a senior pursuing majors in English and religious studies and a minor in creative writing. “Blue Morpho” is one of the poems featured in her new poetry collection, Ephemera.
A plan and a partnership: $10 million gift supports strategic initiatives
John and Marree Townsend’s commitments to UNC-Chapel Hill over the years have been both plentiful and purposeful — and none more so than their most recent $10 million gift to the College of Arts & Sciences to establish the Townsend Family Strategic Initiatives Fund and the Marree Shore Townsend Fellowship in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
‘Step Right Up’ to Dougherty’s sculpture
Patrick Dougherty’s latest stickwork sculpture, “Step Right Up,” has its home outside the Ackland Art Museum. Dougherty, who received a bachelor’s in English in the College of Arts & Sciences in 1967, later returned to UNC’s art department for post-graduate work in 1981 and 1982.
Love for Latin
You never know where you’ll end up when you follow your passions. For music professor Steve Anderson, his passions have led him to the Dominican Republic on multiple occasions.
Adolescent Health
Sociologist Kathleen Harris discusses Add Health, the largest study on adolescent health that also looks at the social and biological determinants on health and health behavior.
FedEx Global Center
In honor of the FedEx Global Education Center’s ten year anniversary, this film highlights two values important to the centers, institutes, and offices within the Center: Nelson Mandela’s humanitarian ideals and the importance of languages in international education.
Coastal Keepers
To better protect coastal communities, researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill are teaming up with researchers from Oregon State to conduct studies on North Carolina’s sand dunes. How do they grow? How do they change over time? What environments promote dune growth?