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| UNC GLOBAL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER | August 31, 2009 |
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LATEST NEWS | |
 | UNC Begins Phase III Malaria Vaccine Trial in Malawi |
August 28, 2009 UNC News Services The phase III trial of the potential malaria vaccine known as RTS,S began this month in Malawi, Africa, with the help of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. | |
 | Overcoming Adversity to Fight Poverty |
August 28, 2009 UNC Global News As swine flu fears gripped North America, three UNC students decided to brave the situation and continue on with their planned trip to volunteer in rural Mexico. | |
 | UNC Study to Examine Whether Paying Girls to Attend School Reduces HIV Risk |
August 27, 2009 UNC News Services The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study if monetary incentives and community mobilization can help prevent young women in South Africa from becoming infected with HIV. | |
 | International Scholars Join FPG Institute’s ‘Recognition & Response’ Project |
August 26, 2009 UNC News Services Two international scholars, Eleni Soucacou, Ph.D., and Franziska Egert, will join the FPG Child Development Institute’s recognition & response project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall. | |
 | Talk by Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar Kicks Off Jewish Studies Events |
August 25, 2009 UNC News Services A talk by a pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls research will kick off a series of community events sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | Choir of King’s College London to Perform Sept. 9 |
August 24, 2009 UNC News Services The Choir of King’s College London will perform masterpieces of the Spanish and English Renaissance in a concert Sept. 9 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | Global Health Update |
Myron S. Cohen, MD, Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases A successful UNC partnership provides opportunities for students and brings clean water to many in sub-Saharan Africa. | |
 | Arts to Foster Conversation on Diasporas, Migration, Identity |
August 21, 2009 UNC News Services Conversations on diasporas, migration and cultural identity will be the focus of the Carolina Creative Campus program during the 2009-10 academic year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | Art, Films, More on Stone Center Fall Agenda |
August 12, 2009 UNC News Services A Grammy-nominated Afro-Puerto Rican ensemble and an art exhibition featuring the latest work of a Moroccan-born artist will be among the fall programs at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. | |
 | Local Action for Global Impact |
August 11, 2009 UNC Global News One of the most effective vaccines for Rotavirus, a devastating intestinal disease that affects millions of infants and small children each year, costs approximately $182.50 for the required three doses. | |
 | UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Focuses on the Safety of the World's Food and Drug Supply |
August 7, 2009 UNC Kenan-Flagler Online News UNC’s Kenan-Flagler and Beijing’s Tsinghua University hosted the International Symposium on Food & Drug Safety in Beijing. | |
 | UNC Researchers Decode Structure of An Entire HIV Genome |
August 5, 2009 UNC News Services The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The results have widespread implications for understanding the strategies that viruses, like the one that causes AIDS, use to infect humans. | |
 | Groundbreaking Study Shows Exercise Benefits Leukemia Patients |
August 3, 2009 UNC School of Medicine News A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that exercise may be an effective way to combat the debilitating fatigue that leukemia patients experience. | |
 | Grace MacNair: Mahatma Gandhi Fellow and Doula |
Spring 2009 Asia Connections Newsletter When people ask me how I trained to be a doula (labor supporter) I usually describe the Doulas of North America International requirements. But the more truthful answer is: the women of India. | |
 | UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center Uses Technology to Encourage Conversation About Identity |
July 31, 2009 UNC Global The Office of International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is utilizing a combination of film and new online communication technologies to broaden the focus of the exhibition entitled kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa currently on display at the FedEx Global Education Center. | |
 | UNC Awarded $3.5 Million to Study HIV Transmission Prevention Among Newly Infected |
July 30, 2009 UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases News A team of researchers from the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases has received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study HIV prevention methods among people with acute HIV infection (AHI). | |
 | UNC Physician Receives 2009 International Leadership Award From The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation |
July 27, 2009 Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases News Agnes Moses, MD has been selected to receive the 2009 International Leadership Award (ILA) from The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The announcement was made during the 2009 International AIDS Society (IAS) conference, held July 19-22 in Cape Town, South Africa. | |
 | Bridging Cultures Under the Bright Lights |
July 26, 2009 UNC Global News As a playwright, producer and actress, Elyse Ribbons, class of 2003, is what those in the entertainment industry like to call a ‘triple threat.’ | |
 | Panel Discussion to Address Global Family Planning Efforts |
July 22, 2009 UNC News Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty and area health researchers will meet July 30 for a panel discussion addressing the importance of scaling up family planning efforts around the world. | |
 | Jackson to Direct UNC’s Institute of African-American Research |
July 21, 2009 UNC News Services Fatimah L.C. Jackson, professor of biological anthropology and Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland in College Park, has come to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
 | Lochbaum to be President of International Group |
July 16, 2009 UNC News Services Derek Lochbaum, director of trademarks and licensing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been chosen as president for 2009-2010 of the International Collegiate Licensing Association. | |
 | Obama Nominates UNC Alum, Francis S. Collins, to Head NIH |
July 8, 2009 UNC School of Medicine News On Wednesday July 8, Dr. Francis S. Collins, physician and geneticist, and an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, was nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the National Institutes of Health. | |
 | 38 UNC Students Awarded Study Abroad Scholarships |
July 7, 2009 UNC News Services The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded more than $100,000 in privately funded, need- and merit-based scholarships to 38 undergraduates for 2009 summer, fall and academic year study abroad programs. | |
 | Student Musicians Named 2009 Kenan Music Scholars |
July 6, 2009 UNC News Services Two pianists, a violinist and a euphonium player make up the newest class of Kenan Music Scholars, who have received full scholarships in music to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill beginning this fall. | |
UPCOMING EVENTS - View Online Calendar | |
| August 31st | 10:15 AM to 11:30 AM | Fred Brooks Computer Science Building, room 141 Toward Petascale Systems: The European PRACE Initiative | |
| September 1st | 00:00 AM | Ackland Art Museum Almost Now: Cuban Art, Cinema, and Politics in the 1960s an 1970s | |
| September 1st | 3:30 PM | Dey Hall, Toy Lounge Longing: Personal Effects from the Border | |
| September 2nd | 09:00 AM | FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Fulbright US Student Program Q&A | |
| September 2nd | 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Peacock Atrium FedEx Global Education Center Open House | |
| September 4th | 8:00 PM | Gerrard Hall After Images of the Disappeared | |
| September 8th | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 Mentoring Opportunity: Scholars Latino Initiative | |
| September 9th | 6:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Conference Room 4003 Myth and Realities about Migration: Perspectives from Below | |
| September 9th | 7:30 PM | Memorial Hall The Choir of King's College London | |
| September 10th | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 Mentoring Opportunity: Scholars Latino Initiative | |
| September 10th | 6:30 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium Undocumented Immigrants in America: Access to Higher Education | |
| September 12th | 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3024 Carolina Navigators Training Session | |
| September 12th | 2:40 PM | Wilson Library That Infernal Little Cuban Republic | |
| September 13th | 11:10 AM | Carroll Hall Second Generations | |
| September 14th | 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Great Hall Study Abroad Fair | |
| September 15th | 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM | George Watts Hill Alumni Center The Iranian Revolution at Age 30 | |
| September 16th | 00:00 AM | Center for Dramatic Arts, Kenan Theatre The Last Cargo Cult | |
| September 16th | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM | Hyde Hall, University Room Undocumented Immigrants in America: Defining Human Rights | |
| September 17th | 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM | George Watts Hill Alumni Center Book Exploration: "A Home on the Field" | |
| September 17th | 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM | Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, State Dining Room GO! Reflection | |
| September 17th | 7:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa Artist Performance and Reception | |
| September 21st | 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM | Michael Hooker Research Center, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation Auditorium Finding Funding for International Internships - School of Public Health Students | |
| September 22nd | 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | George Watts Hill Alumni Center The Holocaust and the Spirit of Colonialism: Race, Rhetoric, and Policy in the Nazi Occupied East | |
| September 23rd | 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM | UN Association: Lunch and Learn | |
| September 24th | 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Second Floor International Coffee Hour | |
| September 24th | 5:30 PM | FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium Obama and the World | |
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