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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 »
Student Startup to Combat Global Warming with Seaweed
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student startup plans to revolutionize seaweed farming in temperate waters, creating jobs, reducing plastic pollution and cleaning carbon from the atmosphere along the way. Founded by Carolina undergraduate students Eliza Harrison, Lucy Best and Emily Kian, the Phyta initiative aims to cultivate macroalgae, or seaweed, to be… Read more »
Chinese Province Honors Hans Paerl
China’s Jiangsu Province gave Carolina researcher Hans Paerl an International Science and Technology Cooperation Award on Aug. 28 for helping the Chinese government develop a nutrient management strategy to counter the proliferation of toxic algal blooms in its lakes. The award was accepted on Paerl’s behalf by professor Guangwei Zhu, one of his key collaborators… Read more »
Sheila Leatherman Contributes to National Academy of Sciences Report on Global Health Care
Sheila Leatherman, professor of health policy and management in the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine study committee charged with looking at global issues related to quality of health care and identifying possible pathways for widespread improvement.
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.
Global History in the Age of Discovery
European travel, trade and colonial ambition increased dramatically in the century and a half following Christopher Columbus’s 1492 encounter with the Americas. Coinciding with the advent of the printing press and a renewed interest in the great writers of classical antiquity, this Age of Discovery fueled scholarly attempts to write and rewrite global history. “Histories of the World: Global History… Read more »
Parenting in an Increasingly Diverse World
Multicultural dynamics. Economic disparities. LGTBQ subtleties. Single-parent prevalence. Diversification of the American family is happening at an unprecedented rate, and while awareness of this increased diversity rises, research for what impact it has on parenting adolescents has been limited. A recently published special edition of the Journal of Research on Adolescence—a journal of the Society for Research on… Read more »
New Program Connects Chinese Students with UNC Pharmacy
Thirty-six undergraduate pharmacy students from China concluded a four-week survey course at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy on August 10. The Innovations and Transformations in Pharmaceutical Sciences (ITPS) program gave UNC graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members the opportunity to teach and interact with the Chinese students. The ITPS program is in its… Read more »
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.