For immediate use: Friday, Feb. 14, 2014   “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, will be the 2014 summer reading book for incoming students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   A nine-member … Read more

For immediate release: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014     The 2014 Global American South Conference, “Cities, Rivers and Cultures of Change: Rethinking and Restoring the Environments of the Global American South,” will take place at the FedEx Global Education Center … Read more

For immediate use: Monday, Feb. 10, 2014   Sixteen Muslim-Americans were charged with violent terrorism offenses in 2013, including Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his deceased brother, Tamerlan, according to a new report by the Triangle Center on … Read more

For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014   Two professors from the University of North Carolina will join other distinguished panelists Feb. 13 at the Carter Center in Atlanta to discuss human rights and Argentina’s “Dirty War.”   C.A. Tuggle, … Read more

For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014   Andrew Perrin, an associate professor of sociology, has been named the new director of the Carolina Seminars Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Perrin succeeds James Peacock, Kenan … Read more

For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014   Mark Katz, professor and chair of the department of music and adjunct professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named director of the Institute … Read more

For immediate use: Thursday, January 23, 2014   Lester Brown, founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, will deliver a free public lecture, “Peak Water: What Happens to Our Food Supply When the Wells Go Dry?,” Feb. 4 at the … Read more

The fishing boats and people of eastern North Carolina will be the topic of a free public program Feb. 6 in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author and photographer Lawrence Earley will share photographs … Read more

Business professionals and master of business administration students who want to learn workplace Portuguese and Mandarin can sign up now for online courses through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Global Business Center at Kenan-Flagler Business School … Read more