Ten years later, Rye Barcott returned to where it all began. Barcott came to the University Tuesday to celebrate the release of his first book, “It Happened on the Way to War,” which coincides with an art exhibit meant to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Carolina for Kibera, a group he started as a UNC student.
More groups looked to the Parents Council for grant money this year due to budget cuts, leading to the council’s most selective distribution of funds in at least six years. The Parents Council, a dues-paying group of about 100 UNC parents, granted 48.7 percent of the nearly $270,000 in grant requests for submitted by student groups, University programs and Granville Towers, among others.
In 2009, it was “A Home on the Field.” In 2010, it was “Picking Cotton.”And for the summer of 2011, UNC has turned once again to a non-fictional account of a life-changing journey.
As the end of the school year gets closer, students are beginning to consider where they will live in the fall.
In what amounted to a State of the Union address on the University’s efforts to cure and stymie the spread of HIV, a group of researchers presented their findings Wednesday in honor of World AIDS Day. From a topical gel that curbs the transfer of HIV to producing enzymes that train cells to “ignore” the virus, researchers presented their findings before a crowd of about 130 that gathered in the Center for Bioinformatics for the twelfth annual World AIDS Day Symposium.
Twenty-five years after her death, Pauli Murray received a 100th birthday present Wednesday. In honor of the deceased activist’s life, a panel of professors spoke on the life and causes of Murray, who was rejected from UNC because of her race in 1938 and Harvard University in 1944 because of her gender.
More than 500 students turned out Thursday to the Fall Career Expo, hoping to find work in a slow economy. This year, 94 businesses set up booths in the Rams Head Gym for students seeking full-time jobs and internships, compared with the 81 at last year’s event, an indication of an economic rebound.
