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| UNC GLOBAL NEWSLETTER | June 1, 2009 |
EXPLORE OUR WORLD AT UNC GLOBAL - Read the latest Global News and Events across campus and across the world. Enjoy feature stories by UNC students. Visit global.unc.edu. Watch for the mid-summer issue of the UNC Global Newsletter. | |
LATEST NEWS | |
 | New International Advisory Board Created to Guide Global Expansion of Kenan-Flagler |
May 29, 2009 UNC News Services The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has created a new International Board of Advisers of alumni who will advise the dean as the school expands its ongoing engagement with the global business community. | |
 | Shapiro's 'Old War' Receives Ambassador Book Award |
May 28, 2009 UNC News Services The book “Old War” (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) by poet Alan Shapiro of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded the Ambassador Book Award in poetry. | |
 | UNC Student Accepted Into China Language & Teaching Program |
May 27, 2009 UNC College of Arts & Sciences News William Thore, a peace, war and defense major in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, has been accepted into the China Professional Training and Language Academy (CPTLA) program for the summer session. | |
 | Students in UNC's Entrepreneurship Minor Pursue Summer Internships Worldwide |
May 26, 2009 Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative News This summer, 79 UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates with entrepreneurial interests will head to internships throughout the world to complete their requirement for the minor in entrepreneurship. | |
 | Second Annual Battle Award Recognizes Groundbreaking Cancer Research |
May 22, 2009 UNC Health News Nancy Raab-Traub, Ph.D., Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Microbiology and immunology, has been awarded the second Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award in recognition of her work. | |
 | Two at UNC Win Scholarships for Self-designed Study Abroad |
May 21, 2009 UNC News Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students Daniel Acker and Brooke Hoffman have received federally funded David L. Boren Scholarships to study in regions of special interest to the U.S. government. | |
 | Bhutan |
Spring 2009 Carolina Passport Magazine I am no longer Sean McKeithan. I am Ngawang Jamtsho. I have been renamed. | |
 | UNC Study Identifies Genetic Cause of Most Common Form of Breast Cancer |
May 14, 2009 UNC School of Medicine News Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that defects in one tumor-suppressor gene, called p18, may override the rest, eventually leading to cancer. | |
 | 18-year-old Ugandan Comes to UNC Hospitals for Heart Repair Procedure |
May 13, 2009 UNC New Services For the last three years, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has sent a medical team once a year to Kampala, Uganda, the capital of the African nation. | |
 | Class of 1938 Awards Five UNC Students Travel Fellowships |
May 13, 2009 UNC News Services Five University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students have received UNC Class of 1938 travel fellowships for research abroad this summer. | |
| Executive Development Custom Programs Ranked 17th in World |
May 2009 UNC Kenan-Flagler Newsletter The Financial Times ranked custom executive programs offered by the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School 17th in the world and 7th in the United States. The rankings were part of the newspaper’s 2009 survey of the best non-degree programs for executives.
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 | UNC, Duke Announce New Robertson Scholars |
May 13, 2009 UNC News Services Thirty high school seniors have accepted invitations to join the Robertson Scholars Program next fall, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp have announced. | |
 | From Italy to Micronesia: Exploring the World One Choice at a Time |
Spring 2009 Carolina Passport Magazine There were so many countries to choose from: Russia, England, Spain, Italy and more. All of them were mysterious and exotic. | |
 | Twenty-two UNC Students to Study in Asia as Phillips Ambassadors |
May 12, 2009 UNC News Services Twenty-two exceptional undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for summer and fall 2009 study abroad programs in Asia. | |
 | Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Hosts First Morehead-Cain Scholars in Malawi |
May 12, 2009 UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases News The UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases will be welcoming its first Morehead-Cain scholars this summer at UNC Project-Malawi. | |
 | Tutu, Five Others to Receive Honorary Degrees at Carolina's May Commencement |
May 7, 2009 UNC News Services A renowned anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner, an industrialist and philanthropist, the “poet laureate of Southern Jews,” a medical and pharmaceutical leader, a champion of American Indian rights and self-determination, and a cultural force in the literary life of the state, the South and the nation will receive honorary degrees May 10 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s spring commencement. | |
 | UNC Sophomore David Baron Receives a Projects for Peace Grant for HOPE Garden |
May 6, 2009 UNC News Services A sustainable way to address homelessness in Chapel Hill resulted in a $10,000 grant for its creator, David Baron of Atlanta, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | Deshpande Foundation Funds Students’ Public Health Efforts in India |
May 6, 2009 UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Two teams of students from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been selected by the Deshpande Foundation's Innovators Program to lead projects in India this summer that address pressing public health needs in sanitation and reproductive health. | |
 | Carney Re-elected Chair of International Astronomy Association |
May 5, 2009 UNC College of Arts& Sciences News Bruce W. Carney, a physics and astronomy professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was re-elected chair of the board of directors of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. | |
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