Patricia Dos Santos, assistant professor of chemistry, has received funding from the N.C. Biotechnology Center for her proposal “Novel strategies to develop antibiotic to Gram-positive microbes assemble essential (Fe-S) clusters.”
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Ananda Mitra, professor of communication, is featured in a story about his summer course on “Communication, Culture and Sustainability.” As part of the course, he and his wife took 11 students to visit his native India.
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Stephen P. Messier, professor of health and exercise science, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal “Intensive Dietary Restriction with Exercise in Arthritis.”
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Eileen M. Young, adjunct professor of music, directed the Student Clarinet Quarter in the American premier of “Images of Auschwitz” in April. She sent a recording of the performance to the Italian composer Guido Arbonelli, who wrote back his appreciation for the students’ performance.
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Carol Turowski, co-director of the Innocence and Justice Clinic, wrote about the role of race in death penalty cases in the August 9 edition of The Huffington Post.
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Peter Brunette, Reynolds Professor of Film Studies, has been honored posthumously by the RiverRun International Film Festival. The Best Director award in narrative features will be named the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director. The 2011 festival will take place April 8 to 17 in […]
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Wei-chin Lee, professor of political science, published an edited volume, “Taiwan’s Politics in the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges” (World Scientific Pub., 2010) and contributed two chapters, “Taiwan’s Politics in the 2000s: An Introduction” and “Sound and Fury: US-Taiwan Relations under Chen Shui-bian in the […]
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Lynn Neal, associate professor of religion, was featured in a nationally syndicated newspaper column (September 12) on the new book that she co-authored, “Religious Intolerance in America.”
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Zella Johnson is retiring as an administrative assistant in the biology department after 30 years.
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Dan Locklair, professor of music and composer-in-residence, had a selection, “Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Montréal),” performed on August 8 in Christ Church Cathedral, Montréal, Canada by The Choristers of the Montreal Boys’ Choir Course as a part of the Evensong celebrating the 50th anniversary of […]
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