"The Resegregation of Southern Schools? A Crucial Moment in the History (and the Future) of Public Schooling in America" is co-sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the North Carolina Law Review and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.
More than 200 individuals, including scholars, civil rights advocates, policy-makers, lawyers and school administrators, are expected to attend this conference.
"This is exactly the sort of applied academic work that I have hoped the Center for Civil Rights would be able to undertake," said Gene Nichol, law school dean.
"We will examine a crushing legal and social problem, to both North Carolina and the nation, from a variety of disciplines, to suggest reform," Nichol said.
University Receives Grant for Research
UNC received $1.6 million to support bioscience education outreach efforts to secondary schools and historically minority universities in the state.
The funding is part of a $80 million grant to 44 research universities across the country.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute grants support to "programs that can become models for bringing undergraduate teaching and research closer together, as well as exposing undergraduates to emerging fields in biology and to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the life sciences," according to the institute's announcement.
"Biology is progressing so rapidly and interfacing with so many other disciplines that undergraduate teaching runs the risk of substituting quantity for quality," said Dr. Thomas R. Cech, HHMI president.
"Through these grants, the institute is providing resources to help universities bring their undergraduate science teaching up to the level of their research programs," he said.
Other North Carolina research universities also received money from the grants.
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N.C. State University also received $1.6 million, and Duke University received $1.8 million.
Durham to Host Music Summit on July 27
The Southeast Music and Entertainment Summit will be held at the Marriott Civic Center in Durham on July 27 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The SMES works to build a business an social network that covers the Mid-Atlantic region.
The centerpiece of the event is a trade show featuring equipment manufacturers, record labels, fashion designers, music distribution companies and skateboard manufacturers.
The daylong convention will also feature a sound stage featuring live performances, a demo clinic where artists can have their recording work critiqued by industry professionals, several moderated panels, an unsigned artist showcase and several MC and DJ competitions.
