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| UNC GLOBAL NEWSLETTER | April 30, 2009 |
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 | UNC to Launch Solar Fuels Research Center With $17.5 Million in Federal Energy, Stimulus Grant |
April 29, 2009 UNC News Services The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant expected to be valued at $17.5 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy and President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for an innovative interdisciplinary research center to develop solar fuels from next-generation photovoltaic technology. | |
 | UNC Rhodes Scholars Chosen For USA Today's First Team |
April 29, 2009 UNC News Services Rhodes Scholarship winners Aisha Ihab Saad and Elisabeth “Lisette” Yorke of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected as members of USA Today’s 2009 All-USA College Academic First Team. | |
 | Abstract Artwork to be Displayed at Global Center |
April 29, 2009 UNC News Services Abstract paintings by Argentinean artist Eduardo Lapetina will be displayed May 6 through June 11 in the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | UNC Junior Awarded Udall Scholarship |
April 23, 2009 UNC News Services Marion Boulicault of London, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was studying abroad in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam when she heard the news. | |
 | UNC Alum Receives International Educational Leadership Award |
April 23, 2009 School of Education E-newsletter Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Paula Myrick Short has received an international award?the Paul A. Elsner International Excellence in Leadership Award?that recognizes individuals in the field of education who demonstrate those qualities. | |
 | UNC Plant Biologist Wins International Research Award |
April 23, 2009 UNC News Services Jeff Dangl, a biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has won two awards for his pioneering work in plant biology. | |
 | UNC NextRay Team Places Second in Prestigious Rice University Business Plan Competition |
April 21, 2009 UNC News Services A student team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School won second place and more than $142,000 Saturday (April 18) in the 2009 Rice University Business Plan Competition, the largest graduate-level business plan competition in the world. | |
 | Seniors Close Gap Between Hospitals In Developing Countries and Medical Supplies |
April 21, 2009 UNC College of Arts & Sciences News Not winning the Carolina Challenge in 2008 proved to be an invaluable experience for the UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate entrepreneurs who created MedPLUS. | |
 | Global Experience Breeds New Public Health Perspectives |
April 21, 2009 UNC Global News Trucks rode up and down the street at various times throughout the day, instructing through loudspeakers how to deal with a cholera outbreak. | |
 | From Japan to Chapel Hill: Gift will Benefit Students of African American Literature |
April 21, 2009 UNC College of Arts & Sciences News A $370,000 gift that honors the life of Japanese businessman Masami Ito will benefit undergraduate and graduate students of African American literature in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. | |
 | MBAs Tackle Honduras Habitat for Humanity Global Project |
April 21, 2009 UNC Kenan-Flagler e-Newsletter A team of 12 UNC Kenan-Flagler MBAs spent their spring break working on the Honduras Habitat for Humanity Global Service Project in La Ceiba, Honduras. | |
 | Global Health Update |
Myron S. Cohen, MD, Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases By training one person, UNC helps thousands in Malawi. | |
 | Hodges Visits Iraq, Blogs about Teaching MBAs in Kurdish Region |
April 21, 2009 UNC Kenan-Flagler e-Newsletter Luther Hodges Jr., an adjunct professor at UNC Kenan-Flagler, traveled to Iraq earlier this year to teach business law and business ethics to 31 MBA students at The American University in Iraq-Sulaimani. | |
 | UNC's Ernst Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
April 20, 2009 UNC News Services Carl William Ernst of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. | |
 | Striving for Peace with the Power of the Pen |
April 14, 2009 UNC Global News It takes a certain amount of courage for a novice author to title the first chapter of his book, “Failure.” But considering the unbelievable obstacles that Greg Mortenson, co-author of the acclaimed Three Cups of Tea, has faced in his life, it is not surprising that his perception of this term is slightly unconventional. | |
 | Ugandan Peace Negotiator: Getting Beyond the Surface |
April 15, 2009 UNC Global News Speaking to a full house at the FedEx Global Education Center on March 26, Betty Bigombe, Ugandan peace leader and international diplomat, addressed students, faculty and community members, voicing her concerns about child trafficking and the need for mediation in Africa. | |
 | Five UNC Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships |
April 9, 2009 UNC News Services The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to support research and artistic creation to five professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | Latino Migration Project Receives Grant, Sponsors Statewide 'Building Community' Series |
April 9, 2009 UNC News Services The Latino Migration Project at the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant of $31,354 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. The grant will fund a statewide series of community conferences on immigration called “Building Communities.” | |
 | UNC Student-led Native Health Initiative Wins Health Award, Celebrates Youth Programs |
April 9, 2009 UNC News Services The Global Health Education Consortium of faculty and health educators from more than 70 universities named the Native Health Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the Global Health Project of the Year at its annual convention Saturday (April 4) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | |
 | UNC Professor Receives International Association for Dental Research Award |
April 7, 2009 UNC News Services Lyndon Cooper, D.D.S, Ph.D., chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry’s department of prosthodontics, has received the International Association for Dental Research’s 2009 Research in Prosthodontics and Implants Award. | |
 | Compton Fellowship Funds UNC Student's Service in Uganda |
April 7, 2009 UNC News Services Lojuan Kennedy Maring, a health behavior and health education master’s student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received a $10,000 PRB Compton Fellowship award for an internship this summer in Masindi, Uganda. | |
 | Two from UNC Win Goldwater Scholarships |
April 6, 2009 UNC News Services Sophomores Ann Liu and Varun Puvanesarajah came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on somewhat similar paths. | |
UPCOMING EVENTS - View Online Calendar | |
| April 30th | 5:30 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Conference Room 4003 Russia and Its Empires, East and West | |
| May 9th | 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Peacock Atrium The Paintings of Eduardo Lapetina Exhibition Opening | |
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