Students being recruited to intern for Chapel Hill 2020 plan
By Ethan Robertson | Oct. 4, 2011UNC students know their social media — and Chapel Hill leaders are putting their blogging and communication skills to good use.
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Two UNC students have emerged ahead of a year’s worth of fellow “heroes” to be named finalists for People Magazine’s annual Readers’ Choice Hero award. Krissi Fajgenbaum, a freshman, and Gabriel Whaley, a senior, both founded nonprofit organizations that caught the magazine’s attention.
Read More »Nationally recognized recovery programs for alcohol and substance abuse could soon be available to students at UNC.
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When Captain Byron Greeson proposed the Chapel Hill Fire Department take part in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, he had his mom — a two-time breast cancer survivor — in mind.
Read More »Duke’s men’s golf team made the game look easy at last weekend’s Rod Myers Intercollegiate, as they finished the event as the only team under par.
Read More »All 13 of the vacant seats in Student Congress were filled Monday after a special election that saw 564 students vote online. But write-in candidates, who won the vast majority of open graduate student seats, must formally accept their seats in order for the body to avoid another special election.
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Al Young is a writer. Delving into poetry and fiction, memoirs and anthologies, even screenplays for the likes of Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby, Young has been named the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Prize recipient.
Read More »When people think of Japan, three local professors are hoping they will also think of the Triangle.
Read More »Universities paying international recruiting agents on a per- student commission have fueled a national ethical debate. And the UNC system will be joining the discussion.
Read More »Researchers in the School of Information and Library Science have become part of a multi-million dollar effort to create a national data network.
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Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not much closer to a solution after years of peace talks and false starts, UNC students are finding ways to become engaged in the debate.
Read More »For a condition as rampant and debilitating as postpartum depression, proper resources for treatment have been surprisingly lacking. By opening the nation’s first standalone perinatal psychiatry center, UNC Hospitals has set an example to follow for devoting enough to a depression touching one in 10 women after childbirth.
Read More »With an eye on quick and noticeable policy changes, the committee charged with developing the University’s latest academic plan has begun to chart out its opening projects.
Read More »Universities nationwide are urging members of Congress to reach an agreement on federal deficit reduction without imposing further cuts on higher education.
Read More »UNC will celebrate its third annual First Amendment Day on Tuesday, Sept. 27, but its importance extends outside the campus.
Read More »The Board of Trustees will mark its first meeting of the academic year today with an organizational change. In order to promote more focused conversation within its committees, members have split the University affairs committee into two parts — establishing a branch for student affairs and another for academic affairs.
Read More »Like all schools under the NCAA’s keen gaze, UNC takes special care to emphasize the first term in “student athlete.”
Read More »As the University took care to note in a 111-page response to the NCAA’s allegations Monday, the athletic department’s history is almost entirely scandal-free. But considering the gravity of the football team’s violations, “almost” means nothing. The University showed an understanding of that point in answering the NCAA’s allegations with hefty self-imposed punishment; however, there are questions left to answer.
Read More »UNC-system administrators are working to expand foreign language learning opportunities for students as part of an initiative they hope will save money in the long run.
Read More »Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton became the youngest elected political figure in the state’s history when he joined the Chapel Hill Town Council at age 21, but he started his political career even earlier as an undergraduate student at UNC. Chilton, a 1993 UNC graduate, is one of many candidates in this year’s local elections who got their political start during their time at the University.
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