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Inside This Issue
You’re invited to a big bash in fall 2021
We asked prolific author Daniel Wallace to help us generate excitement for a big birthday; English was first taught to students in 1795.
One year in
It has been inspiring to see the way our faculty and staff rose to the crisis and went the extra mile for our students over these past 13 months.
A seat at the Round Table
Tracy Deonn’s debut young adult novel brings Arthurian legends and magic to Carolina’s campus.
Read more books: Additional offerings by College faculty and alumni
Add these new books by College faculty and alumni to your reading list.
New gift from the Craver family
Vicki ’92 and David Craver ’92 have made a transformative commitment to establish the Craver Family Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Lights on the Hill
Lights on the Hill, a new monthly website feature highlighting College people who are putting service at the forefront, was launched in January.
Researchers launch resource for pandemic recovery
The Carolina Tracker project is a website offering day-to-day information on how North Carolinians’ lives have changed since the onset of the pandemic.
Carolina Away research course
Carmen Huerta-Bapat is helping students get involved in research on campus with the new course “Contemporary World Problems.”
Depression and anxiety among students worsen during pandemic
First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a UNC study.
Carolina alumni named Rhodes Scholars
Peter Andringa and Sarah Mackenzie are Carolina’s 50th and 51st Rhodes Scholars.
$38.2 million NIH grants will support study of adolescent-to-adult health
The Carolina Population Center has received two grants that together will fund a new wave of Add Health.
A champion for athletes
Jim Tanner is certified as an agent by the NBA and has represented multiple former Tar Heels as clients.
Three College professors named AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has tapped three College faculty members as fellows.
Lecture draws parallels between post-Reconstruction and today
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was the spring 2021 Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor.
#Throwback: Wolfe’s wing alights anew
The Thomas Wolfe memorial was relocated to near New East in 1972. Thirty-four years later, it was placed in a memorial courtyard near Greenlaw Hall.
A doctor’s love of ancient medicine leads to gift for classics department
When Maury Hanson died at age 100 last spring, he bequeathed an unrestricted planned gift to the department of classics and to University Libraries.
Publishing pioneer
Alumna Rebecca Wesson Darwin redefined Southern magazines with the award-winning Garden & Gun.
Through a filmmaker’s lens
Watching the sunrise on Mount Fuji is among the memorable experiences in senior Michael Sparks award-winning film about his trip to Japan.
If plants could talk
Sierra Roark seeks to tell a more inclusive history by studying plant remains and the medicinal uses of plants in the South.
Rethinking drug delivery systems
Rahima Benhabbour’s innovative medical devices have the potential to benefit marginalized women around the globe.
Students, an ocean apart, study drama and the plague
An international online course connects students from three universities to explore how theater-makers can adapt, recover and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
All Too Human
Amid a global pandemic, when other theaters were shutting down, PlayMakers Repertory Company programmed its first virtual season.
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
New faculty in the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship are helping students learn how to turn opportunity into possibility.
Building resilience for storm-battered N.C.
A diverse team of researchers is addressing the long-term impact of extreme weather.
Jump-starting startups
Two up-and-coming companies are receiving support through the KickStart Accelerator in the Genome Sciences Building.
Chasing sunlight
UNC-Chapel Hill chemists are leading an effort to make next-generation liquid fuels directly from sunlight and air.
Where Science Meets Solutions
Interdisciplinary faculty research designed to tackle compelling problems is finding support from the Institute for Convergent Science in the Genome Sciences Building on campus.
IAH fellows explore race and place
The first two faculty to receive IAH Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative funding are Oswaldo Estrada, professor of romance studies, and John Sweet, associate professor of history.
‘We’re here to champion each student’s individual story’
Chloe Russell (B.A. journalism and mass communication ’07) was named associate dean for academic advising in September.
New gift endows speaker series promoting constructive public discourse
$8 million gift to fund Abbey Speaker Series in the UNC Program for Public Discourse.
Inside This Issue
In the Field: A summer of discovery for Carolina researchers. ALSO INSIDE: When IDEAs meet action, Meet Dean Jim White, Exploring the multiverse. Click on the magazine cover to view a reader-friendly flipbook.
Letter From the Dean
Dean Jim White shares what he's been up to since becoming dean of the College in July.
Give to Carolina
The Seymour family has established the Dr. Robert E. Seymour Jr. Dean’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fund in the College of Arts and Sciences.
You’re invited to a big bash in fall 2021
We asked prolific author Daniel Wallace to help us generate excitement for a big birthday; English was first taught to students in 1795.
One year in
It has been inspiring to see the way our faculty and staff rose to the crisis and went the extra mile for our students over these past 13 months.
A seat at the Round Table
Tracy Deonn’s debut young adult novel brings Arthurian legends and magic to Carolina’s campus.
Read more books: Additional offerings by College faculty and alumni
Add these new books by College faculty and alumni to your reading list.
New gift from the Craver family
Vicki ’92 and David Craver ’92 have made a transformative commitment to establish the Craver Family Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Lights on the Hill
Lights on the Hill, a new monthly website feature highlighting College people who are putting service at the forefront, was launched in January.
Researchers launch resource for pandemic recovery
The Carolina Tracker project is a website offering day-to-day information on how North Carolinians’ lives have changed since the onset of the pandemic.
Carolina Away research course
Carmen Huerta-Bapat is helping students get involved in research on campus with the new course “Contemporary World Problems.”
Depression and anxiety among students worsen during pandemic
First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a UNC study.
Carolina alumni named Rhodes Scholars
Peter Andringa and Sarah Mackenzie are Carolina’s 50th and 51st Rhodes Scholars.
$38.2 million NIH grants will support study of adolescent-to-adult health
The Carolina Population Center has received two grants that together will fund a new wave of Add Health.
A champion for athletes
Jim Tanner is certified as an agent by the NBA and has represented multiple former Tar Heels as clients.
Three College professors named AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has tapped three College faculty members as fellows.
Lecture draws parallels between post-Reconstruction and today
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was the spring 2021 Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor.
#Throwback: Wolfe’s wing alights anew
The Thomas Wolfe memorial was relocated to near New East in 1972. Thirty-four years later, it was placed in a memorial courtyard near Greenlaw Hall.
A doctor’s love of ancient medicine leads to gift for classics department
When Maury Hanson died at age 100 last spring, he bequeathed an unrestricted planned gift to the department of classics and to University Libraries.
Publishing pioneer
Alumna Rebecca Wesson Darwin redefined Southern magazines with the award-winning Garden & Gun.
Through a filmmaker’s lens
Watching the sunrise on Mount Fuji is among the memorable experiences in senior Michael Sparks award-winning film about his trip to Japan.
If plants could talk
Sierra Roark seeks to tell a more inclusive history by studying plant remains and the medicinal uses of plants in the South.
Rethinking drug delivery systems
Rahima Benhabbour’s innovative medical devices have the potential to benefit marginalized women around the globe.
Students, an ocean apart, study drama and the plague
An international online course connects students from three universities to explore how theater-makers can adapt, recover and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
All Too Human
Amid a global pandemic, when other theaters were shutting down, PlayMakers Repertory Company programmed its first virtual season.
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
New faculty in the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship are helping students learn how to turn opportunity into possibility.
Building resilience for storm-battered N.C.
A diverse team of researchers is addressing the long-term impact of extreme weather.
Jump-starting startups
Two up-and-coming companies are receiving support through the KickStart Accelerator in the Genome Sciences Building.
Chasing sunlight
UNC-Chapel Hill chemists are leading an effort to make next-generation liquid fuels directly from sunlight and air.
Where Science Meets Solutions
Interdisciplinary faculty research designed to tackle compelling problems is finding support from the Institute for Convergent Science in the Genome Sciences Building on campus.
IAH fellows explore race and place
The first two faculty to receive IAH Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative funding are Oswaldo Estrada, professor of romance studies, and John Sweet, associate professor of history.
‘We’re here to champion each student’s individual story’
Chloe Russell (B.A. journalism and mass communication ’07) was named associate dean for academic advising in September.
New gift endows speaker series promoting constructive public discourse
$8 million gift to fund Abbey Speaker Series in the UNC Program for Public Discourse.Inside This Issue
In the Field: A summer of discovery for Carolina researchers. ALSO INSIDE: When IDEAs meet action, Meet Dean Jim White, Exploring the multiverse. Click on the magazine cover to view a reader-friendly flipbook.
Letter From the Dean
Dean Jim White shares what he's been up to since becoming dean of the College in July.
Give to Carolina
The Seymour family has established the Dr. Robert E. Seymour Jr. Dean’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fund in the College of Arts and Sciences.