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(04/10/24 2:08pm)
This week, the UNC LGBTQ Center, in partnership with various local and student organizations, will be hosting Pride Week, five days consisting of celebrations for students of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations.
(03/25/24 11:31pm)
The Carolina For The Kids Foundation hosted its 26th annual dance marathon on Saturday, the culmination of the organization's fundraising efforts from this past school year.
(03/05/24 2:16am)
On Thursday, the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media hosted its first-ever Black History Showcase. Organized by a group of students in the school, the event spotlighted the work and achievements of Black Hussman students, alumni, staff and faculty.
(02/20/24 12:06am)
This week, UNC is partnering with the nonprofit Benefits Data Trust to help eligible students gain access to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through text message and email alerts. SNAP gives qualifying students a monthly stipend for groceries.
(01/21/24 7:05pm)
This year, a group of UNC alumni are leading a fundraising effort to establish a professorship in memory of James Kimball King, professor emeritus of English, in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
(01/09/24 10:43pm)
Next week, the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, in association with the Carolina Union Activities Board and the Office of Student Life and Leadership, is hosting a variety of activities and events to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year, the overarching theme for the celebrations is “The Time is Now,” urging members of the community to take immediate action stand against injustices they encounter.
(12/06/23 8:31am)
Instead of readings and essays, students taking American Studies 398: Service Learning in America spend their time developing “Climatopia,” a board game that educates players about climate-enhanced natural disasters.
(11/21/23 3:59am)
On Friday afternoon, the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health hosted a panel to shed light on gun violence and its status as a public health issue. The panel consisted of three experts: Distinguished political science professor Frank Baumgartner, health management professor Ciara Zachary and faculty chair Beth Moracco.
“At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, we know about the terror that could strike a community when guns are the weapons of choice,” Leoneda Inge, WUNC host and the moderator of the panel, said.
The event consisted of three presentations from each of its panelists. While the presentations maintained the central theme of gun violence as a public health issue, each presenter dived into different areas of the topic.
Baumgartner, a Richard J. Richardson distinguished professor of political science at UNC, emphasized the importance of addressing and discussing gun violence.
“The first numbers are shocking and kind of scary," Baumgartner said. "The United States is simply a very violent country. We have routine basis on the order of 20,000 homicides in our country every year."
Moracco, an associate professor in the department of health behavior, said the lack of funding has only exacerbated the problem of gun violence.
“Although gun violence is among the top 10 causes of death, [research to prevent it] was the second least funded of the top 30,” she said.
In recent years, more pathways to research have been opened due to the replacement of the 1996 Dickey Amendment, which sought to prevent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding from being used to research the prevention of gun violence.
“In 2019, the Dickey document was repealed, and Congress approved $25 million in appropriations for the [National Institutes of Health] and the CDC, specifically on gun violence research," Moracco said. "We're starting to see the results of that."
Along with trying to educate the UNC community on gun violence as a whole, the panel hoped to shed light on the steps that UNC has taken since the gun-related campus lockdowns earlier this semester.
Brent Wishart, senior director of facilities at the public health school, said that three main things were addressed following the lockdowns: the inability to lock classroom doors, the inability to cover some windows and the lack of clear evacuation plans.
“We've hosted three active shooter training sessions," he said. "We've had one that was on Zoom and two in person at the School since the September lockdown."
(10/26/23 8:13pm)
Earlier this week, UNC Research awarded five junior faculty members the 2023 Hettleman Prize: Yaiza Canzani, Brian Conlon, Angel Hsu, Pengda Liu, and Alex Worsnip.
(10/10/23 4:01am)
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the UNC African Studies Center held its third annual Africa Fest full of food, dancing, music and poetry.
(09/28/23 4:00am)
On Thursday, the UNC School of Law will be hosting Farmworker Lunch & Learn, an event organized by the UNC Hispanic/Latino Law Student Association (HLLSA) in collaboration with the UNC Labor & Employment Law Association (LELA).