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Two Nobel Laureate Physicists to Deliver Talks at UNC-Chapel Hill, Nov. 13 and 14
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host two Nobel laureates in Physics in November. Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT, will give a talk on Tuesday, November 13, and Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus at MIT, will give a talk on Wednesday, November 14.
Global Heels: Maribel Carrion
By Jamie Gnazzo ’13 Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and raised in an Army family, Maribel Carrion has always been familiar with travel. Moving from North Carolina to Germany to Panama to Miami, Carrion grew up with a larger sense of the world and its cultures, a mindset she has carried throughout her life…. Read more »
King’s College London Researcher Sharon Stevelink Delivers Talk on Mental Health of Armed Forces
Students and faculty gathered in the FedEx Global Education Center on Oct. 15, 2018 for a lecture on the mental health outcomes of military veterans presented by Sharon Stevelink, lecturer in epidemiology at the King’s College London Centre for Military Health Research and Department of Psychological Medicine. Katie Bowler Young, director of UNC Global Relations,… Read more »
Transatlantic Historical Workshop Connects Graduate Students in Chapel Hill and London
Graduate students from the history departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and King’s College London (KCL) met in Chapel Hill on September 10 and 11 for the ninth annual Workshop on Transatlantic Historical Methods. The workshop, which is supported by UNC-Chapel Hill’s institutional partnership with KCL, brings together students from both… Read more »
Carolina Ranks 56th in 2019 ‘Times Higher Education’ World University Rankings
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 56th among the world’s top 1,258 research universities, according to the London-based Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Raymond Farrow Appointed Associate Provost for Global Affairs
Raymond Farrow, currently senior director for global strategy, has been appointed associate provost for global affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective September 24, 2018. In this new role, Farrow will serve as a leader for the University’s global activities and as the executive director and chief operating officer for UNC… Read more »
Center for European Studies and TransAtlantic Masters Program Host Anniversary Celebration
The 2018-2019 academic year marks two important anniversaries for the Center for European Studies (CES) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: its founding 25 years ago to advance understanding of the social, political, and economic events that shape contemporary Europe, and the establishment of its TransAtlantic Masters (TAM) Program 20 years ago. On… Read more »
‘Reminders of Home’: UNC Exhibition Celebrates Persian Arts and Local Iranian Community
Mina Vakil-Zadeh, who has now lived in Chapel Hill for 50 years, has recently assisted in the curation and organization of an exhibition at the FedEx Global Education Center, loaning many of her own cultural items to be displayed and shared with the Carolina community.
Carolina Celebrates 20th Anniversary of TransAtlantic Masters Program
Designed to provide students with an international education firmly rooted in both European and American perspectives, the TransAtlantic Masters (TAM) Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2018.
Global Heel Rose Jackson Reconnects to Her Persian Heritage at Carolina
Rose Jackson will never forget the moment she heard Farsi spoken for the first time in more than six years. She was a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taking her first Farsi class in the hopes of reclaiming a part of her Iranian identity that she had lost. “I felt… Read more »