S. Philip Morgan, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his co-authors received an award for significant contributions to social demography from the American Sociological Association earlier this month.

Arne Kalleberg, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a top Academy of Management award for his book, “Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s … Read more

Seven new research fellows join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Global Research Institute for the 2012-2013 academic year. The institute’s fellows will focus on water-related research in conjunction with the UNC campus-wide theme.

Yearbooks from 14 of the 17 UNC system institutions – plus 37 other schools – are now archived together online, thanks to a project based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

A $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will expand digital humanities in a transformative way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the hiring of new faculty and the support of graduate students in … Read more

A monumental synagogue building dating to the late Roman and Byzantine periods has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village, in Israel’s Galilee.

Scott Madry, Ph.D., of Chapel Hill, research associate professor of archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received a 2012 President’s Volunteer Service Award from the “making a difference through volunteer service.” The award is given annually … Read more

“Currency in Chaos: How the Civil War Changed America’s Money” will be the topic of a program June 2 the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Penn Center of St. Helena Island, S.C., has named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a member of its 1862 Circle. The center presented the award April 29 to recognize the University’s stewardship of the Penn School … Read more

Public policy professor Ashu Handa has won two research grants, each worth $634,000 over two years, to evaluate social cash transfer programs in Malawi and Zimbabwe.