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The FedEx Global Education Center, located at the corner of McCauley and Pittsboro streets, was dedicated in October 2007. The international center combines student and faculty services, academic instruction, and programs and research. The goal of combining those resources was to create a more integrated approach to international education.
The center opened in March 2007 after two and half years of construction. The $39 million facility was funded by the 2000 Higher Education Bond Referendum and private gifts, including $5 million from the FedEx Corp., for which it was named. The center houses 12 units that focus on international studies and development, plus classrooms and offices, and centralizes UNC’s global education community.
Some democracies are failing and bad governance is to blame, said Larry Diamond, an expert in global affairs.
In a matter of seconds, the TEDxUNC event’s remaining free 50 student tickets sold out on Tuesday. But the conference’s high demand won’t keep it from a mass audience. It will be live-streamed by ReeseNews.org and later posted online for free.
Two continents are united through sculpture in the FedEx Global Education Center’s latest exhibit.
Despite the recent independence of South Sudan, the genocide in Darfur continues to devastate the region, a Northwestern University professor told a crowd of mostly students Tuesday night.
About 100 people turned out to the FedEx Global Education Center on Tuesday night to learn how unstable nations are threatening the world’s security.
Alikhan, who spoke to more than 100 students and community members in the FedEx Global Education Center Monday evening, addressed the harsh stereotypes that have permeated American culture regarding the relationship between Islam and terrorism.
Sharing their stories of gender-related killing, arson and rape, four women explained the dynamics of femicide in Latin America on Friday during the “Gender Violence and Phenomenon of Femicides in the Americas” panel at the FedEx Global Education Center.
The Center for Global Initiatives’ Visualizing Human Rights Anti-Conference, a forum aimed to address worldwide human rights issues in nontraditional ways, hosted by the FedEx Global Education Center on Saturday, featured a collaborative art project, an interview with John Conroy and a workshop featuring members of a local theater group.
Stephen Flynn, president of the Center for National Policy, will speak at the FedEx Global Education Center on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
elin o’Hara slavick’s latest projects — “Hiroshima: After Aftermath,” and “Protesting Cartography: Places the U. S. Has Bombed” — are part of an exhibition titled “Aftermath” currently on display in the lobby of the FedEx Global Education Center.
Wearing the same red parka that she wore during her explorations, artist and polar explorer Nerys Levy showed her travels to an eager crowd from young children to grandparents Wednesday night.
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