Beverly Cleary, a longtime children's book author, passed away at the age of 104, but the nostalgia of her books lives on forever for Maggie Dunn.
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Beverly Cleary, a longtime children's book author, passed away at the age of 104, but the nostalgia of her books lives on forever for Maggie Dunn.
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To many students, it’s just the clear, open seating area at Chase Dining Hall. Some might even call it “the big glass box” or “that thing people sit in where you can watch everyone eat.” But unless you’ve dared to venture into its turbulent waters, you might be unfamiliar with the true name: the Fish Bowl.
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For decades, UNC students have been stealing campus bricks as a rite of passage. But the holes left behind never stay unfilled for long. That’s where Walter Thompson comes in.
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The outbreak of COVID-19 has fostered a new sense of urgency for health care researchers at UNC as the medical community continues to fight the virus.
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The University's COVID-19 vaccination clinic will open Mar. 31 for student vaccinations. Campus Health was approved by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as a vaccine provider and received a 2,000 dose allocation for the week to be distributed to students.
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"Rajiv Mohabir sharing these poems educated more people about what Holi is and the history behind it," Shivam Bhargava said. "It's very easy to celebrate Holi without understanding the cultural and religious significance behind it, but Rajiv's poems add historical and cultural context to the celebration so that more people know what they are celebrating."
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At 16, Alexa Casciano was diagnosed with Lemierre’s Syndrome, which only occurs in only about one in a million people. Now she is a sophomore at UNC, majoring in business and biology with a minor in neuroscience. She wants to become a lawyer.
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Two UNC sophomores co-founded Ultraloop Technologies — a company that sells chemical-free sanitization devices to disinfect items. Aditya Bhatt and Mukesh Loganathan hope that their devices can be placed on campus to help facilitate the transition to on-campus instruction next semester. Currently, over 5,000 units of the technology are being used in India at schools, hotels and restaurants.
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Venus Standard, assistant clinical professor in the UNC School of Medicine's department of family medicine, was awarded the C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional Priorities. She created a program that seeks to train Black women as perinatal labor support doulas. The award "honors faculty whose proposals best embody the humanities and/or social sciences methods or approaches that directly and positively impact constituencies outside the University," according to the Office of the Provost website.
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The Board discussed updates on campus vaccinations and the impact of Gov. Roy Cooper's proposed budget, as well as the Chancellor’s new initiative, Carolina Across 100.
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UNC and Duke are just two of many college campuses where students have called for a move toward abolishing Greek life on campus, due to issues of exclusivity and historic ties to white supremacy. Despite many calls for reform, students have faced roadblocks at almost every push for deactivation along the way.
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"The programming world was a competitive industry to begin with, and the emergence of COVID-19 has only fueled the sense of urgency students feel to obtain an internship."
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On Friday, UNC's search for its next vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer continued with a presentation from second finalist Sibby Anderson-Thompkins. In an open forum, interim chief diversity officer Anderson-Thompkins presented her goals for the position.
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The University has 2,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to allocate to students living in any congregate living settings — including residence halls, fraternity and sorority housing and other off-campus congregate housing.
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In UNC's Faculty Advisory Committee meeting held on Thursday, the committee discussed plans for the fall 2021 semester, the current state of COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts and the appointment of Jill Moore as the new secretary of the faculty for the committee.
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Since 2013, registration for the upcoming fall semester has occurred throughout April. This year, registration begins on June 1.
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"Experience is valuable, and internships certainly give students a leg to stand on. But at a time when students face a record $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, unpaid internships don’t seem like the solution."
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Olivia Tseng, co-founder of UNC CompostMates, said the goal of the organization is to remove barriers for students who choose to compost. As of March 9, the program has diverted 863.9 pounds of food scraps and other compostable waste from landfills.
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Nominations for the Kira N. Griffith Award are open to the entire UNC community and will be judged by the RHA Alumni Committee. The nomination form will be open until April 9 at 11:59 p.m.
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"It's frustrating and ridiculous to be paying thousands of dollars and putting in hours of our time on subjects that we already learned about in high school — and then learned four more times at UNC."
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