University leaders announce plan to address budget challenges
The plan includes reductions to personnel and operating funds across schools and units and eight budget-reduction principles to help guide decision-makers.
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Focus Carolina: Sarah Verbiest
Through her work in developing programs for new mothers and ensuring her research includes racial equity and cultural diversity, she champions Carolina’s service mission.
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Carolina People: Laurie Selz-Campbell
“I feel like I’ve been supporting Carolina’s mission in terms of equity, inclusion and showing up for students.”
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Carolina to celebrate MLK Day with banquet, lecture
The University will begin its commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17 with an annual banquet and awards presentation. The celebrations will conclude a week later with a lecture led by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network.
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Dealing with seasonal affective disorder during a pandemic
A UNC School of Medicine assistant professor shares simple ways to treat or prevent seasonal affective disorder.
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Carolina to virtually host Autism Fathers Conference
Award-winning actor Joe Mantegna, whose adult child is on the autism spectrum, gives the keynote address at the Jan. 23 conference for fathers who have children with autism spectrum disorder.
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A legacy of impact
A new scholarship for incoming first-generation students honors Steve Farmer’s two-decade legacy of improving the accessibility and affordability of Carolina.
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Making the future
Carolina Performing Arts provides a glimpse into their Creative Futures residency and insight into the artists’ work.
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The past, present and future of the equal protection clause
On Feb. 18 and 19, the UNC Center for Civil Rights will present a symposium on the origins, present status, and the future promise of the equal protection clause.
Carolina in the News
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Why this epidemiologist says the vaccine is not a silver bullet for the U.S.
Pia MacDonald, a UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health adjunct associate professor, is interviewed in an op-ed for Forbes on why a vaccine won’t be the end of COVID-19.
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The coronavirus mutation is worrying but not terrifying
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Assistant Professor Lisa Gralinski is quoted by Scientific American on why the coronavirus mutation is a risk if people stop taking safety measures to stop the spread of the disease.
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If you’re allergic to this, you should wait to get the COVID vaccine
Yahoo quotes research on possible anaphylactic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine by Samuel Lai, an Eshelman School of Pharmacy associate professor.
