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UNC institute garners five-year, multimillion-dollar EPA award

November 1, 2007

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has recently awarded a contract that could bring as much as $22 million to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment and other partnering institutions over the … Read more

History student wins national Slavic studies paper award

October 30, 2007

Emily Baran of Milwaukee, Wisc., a doctoral student in history in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, won a national paper award for her research on Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Soviet Union after World War II.

Coach Roy Williams, four educators to be honored Saturday

October 26, 2007

Recipients ranging from a Raleigh middle school teacher to a state legislator and a national championship-winning basketball coach will be honored Saturday (Oct. 27) by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education.

Lecture to mark secessionists as minority before Civil War

October 23, 2007

When Abraham Lincoln was first elected, most Southerners did not favor rebellion, says historian William Freehling, Ph.D., of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. They allied with the Confederacy only after Lincoln called up troops to prevent secession.