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Kenan-Biddle grants see little competition, few applicants

By Alex Barinka | November 8

Students interested in getting a $5,000 grant for next year might benefit from a lack of competition. As of Monday, no applications had been submitted for the Kenan-Biddle Partnership, a three-year, $150,000 collaboration between UNC and Duke University. The grants — suggested to be about $5,000 — are intended to fund student-led projects in the arts, sciences and humanities on either campus.

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Medlin asks Duke, N.C. State and N.C. Central students to not attend Halloween at UNC

By Alex Barinka | October 25

Policies to keep attendance low at Halloween festivities have proven more trick than treat for Duke University. In an effort to enforce the policies, Student Body President Hogan Medlin wrote a letter to three universities, including Duke, asking that students not attend. The letter, which was also sent to N.C.

Ralph Byrns and his student Kahlil Blount, a sophomore political science and economics double major, talk outside Gardner Hall about class and starting an undergraduate economic research club. Blount said Byrns is “the best person in the economics department.”

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UNC students will miss economics professor Ralph Byrns

By Alex Barinka | October 18

On the steps of Gardner Hall, students chat with economics professor Ralph Byrns, who is perched on the concrete wall. It’s a scene that has become common over the years, but this will be the last year he watches the leaves change from his spot in Chapel Hill.

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UNC's APPLES program celebrates 20 years with a reunion

By Alex Barinka | October 14

The University’s APPLES program will celebrate 20 years of service-minded learning with its Alumni Reunion this Saturday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center for Dramatic Art. APPLES is a student-led program which merges academics and experiential, community-based service into courses at UNC. The anniversary event will look back on the past two decades of the program through alumni speakers, the unveiling of the 20th anniversary video and words from current APPLES organizers.

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UNC Hospitals' cardiovascular surgeon receives 130 percent pay raise, stays at UNC

By Alex Barinka | October 11

UNC Hospitals recently raised a cardiovascular surgeon’s salary by $335,000, to $600,000 annually. Dr. Brett Sheridan is the only surgeon at UNC Hospitals who performs highly specialized adult cardiac and thoracic surgeries.

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Kenan-Biddle grants see little competition, few applicants

Medlin asks Duke, N.C. State and N.C. Central students to not attend Halloween at UNC

UNC students will miss economics professor Ralph Byrns

UNC's APPLES program celebrates 20 years with a reunion

UNC Hospitals' cardiovascular surgeon receives 130 percent pay raise, stays at UNC

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