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King’s College London Celebrates USA Week 2016
November 29, 2016King’s College London hosted USA Week in November 2016, featuring work produced as a result of the UNC-King’s Strategic Alliance and other activity with U.S. partners. A King’s review of the events of USA Week follows. King’s hosted USA Week from November 14 to 18, a celebration of our engagement with United States. A wide array of events, including cultural performances, guest lectures, panel discussions and information events encouraging our students to study in the U.S., ran throughout the week to highlight our long-standing relationship with colleagues and partners in the United States. In the run up to USA Week, King’s was … Read more
Shamira Lukomwa ’15 Links Art and Advocacy in Nairobi
November 29, 2016For Shamira Lukomwa, working in Africa is personal. It was this passion that led Lukomwa to take what she learned as a double major in global studies and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, where she worked with Kenyan artists and activists. “My interests are in East Africa because of my roots there,” she explained. A first-generation American, Lukomwa was born in New York just one year after her parents emigrated from Uganda and, when it was time to apply to college, it was two Ugandan-American alumnae that convinced … Read more
UNC, Duke-NUS Team Identifies First Step to Neutralizing Zika
November 28, 2016As the Zika virus spreads throughout the world, the call for rapid development of treatment rings loud and clear. Taking a step further in identifying a possible therapeutic candidate, a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke-NUS Medical School (a collaboration between Duke University and the National University of Singapore) has discovered the mechanism by which human antibodies prevent Zika infection at a cellular level. C10, a human antibody previously identified to react with the Dengue virus, had already been identified as one of the most potent antibodies able to neutralize Zika infection. Now, Ralph Baric, … Read more
UNC Global Passport Drive Draws Record-Breaking Number of Applicants
November 24, 2016UNC Global saw a record-breaking number of people participate in the annual passport drive on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16. A total of 373 students, faculty, staff and family members applied for or renewed their passports, up from last year’s total of 333. U.S. Department of State officials accepted applications and answered questions, while the UNC One Card office assisted with photographs. UNC Global staff coordinated the event. “Our annual Passport Drive continues to be an exciting event and is one example of how UNC Global facilitates global opportunities for the UNC community,” said Ronald Strauss, chief international officer and … Read more
Advancing Education for Children Displaced by War
November 23, 2016University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumnus Scott Quilty knows first-hand how warfare tears communities apart. News agencies frequently report dramatic images of violence and combat, but for people living in wartorn regions, the challenges continue even if they are able to flee the violence. Inspired by his military service, Quilty is using the skills and connections he gained at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business school to improve access to education in refugee camps all over the Middle East. More than four million Syrian refugees have been uprooted by war. Many families forced to flee their homes have sought shelter in transitional … Read more
Speizer to Examine Family Planning Program Activities in Nigeria
November 22, 2016Ilene Speizer, research professor in the maternal and child health department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, will lead a two-year, $1.7 million project on family planning in Nigeria funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Speizer will collaborate with David Guilkey, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of economics at UNC, and others on the Measurement, Learning and Evaluation team to examine the long-term sustainability of family planning program activities in urban Nigeria. The project will involve collecting data from women and facilities that originally were surveyed in 2010 and … Read more
Joyce Wins Prize to Attend Conferences Focused on Middle East
November 19, 2016Anthony Joyce, a first-year master’s of library sciences student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), received the George N. Atiyeh Prize to help cover the cost of attending the Middle East Librarians Association meeting Nov. 15-17 and the Middle East Studies Association of North America meeting Nov., 17-20, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recipients are chosen based on their curriculum vitae and a personal statement describing their background in Middle Eastern studies, career goals and motivation for attending the meetings. Joyce lived in Egypt and studied at the American University in … Read more
School of Nursing Global Health Scholar Studies Effects of Fistula on Women in Mali
November 19, 2016Ingrid Marzuola traveled to Mali this summer as a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing Global Health Scholar to continue her studies on the effects of fistula, a devastating and serious injury resulting from prolonged obstructed labor, and to assist with IntraHealth International’s End Shame: Restore Dignity campaign to prevent and treat the condition. Marzuola, who is obtaining an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing, recently reflected on her experience in a moving contribution to IntraHealth’s blog, Vital, the second of two posts on her summer, in which she chronicles the experience of Miriam, a fistula sufferer, as she undergoes surgery and begins her recovery in … Read more
School of Nursing Signs MOU with St. Luke’s International University in Japan
November 19, 2016The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing formally expanded its global reach on Nov. 8 when Interim Dean Donna Havens signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with St. Luke’s International University in Tokyo, Japan. The MOU marks the first formal step to further a collaborative relationship with the prestigious Japanese university begun by Professor SeonAe Yeo, who has been offering her expertise in their efforts to launch that country’s first Doctor of Nursing Practice program. The two institutions seek to establish a UNC—St. Luke’s international visiting professorship, which will allow UNC faculty to spend four to … Read more
Can Nanotechnology Help Develop a Workable Dengue Virus Vaccine?
November 18, 2016Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine are working to develop a nanoparticle vaccine to protect against the four serotypes of dengue virus, which infects more than 350 million people across the globe each year. Aravinda de Silva, professor of microbiology and immunology, and post-doctoral researcher Stefan Metz recently published the latest on their vaccine development efforts in PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease(s). The nanoparticle platform was produced with Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates (PRINT) technology. Joseph DeSimone, the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry and a joint professor in the Department of Pharmacology at UNC, developed PRINT, a nano-molding … Read more