Mar 16, 2011
Composer J. Mark Scearce, director of the music department, will visit the University of Connecticut this week to conduct performances of his commissioned work for cello and orchestra. Scearce won the 2009 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, which included a $20,000 prize and performance and recording opportunities. Orchestra performances are scheduled at the…
Mar 3, 2011
Caldwell Fellow Alex Martin, who’s double majoring in international studies and business administration, is leading a team of students in a volunteer effort to open up new markets for fair trade merchandise. As the campus Bulletin tells it, he and his teammates from colleges across campus are creating and maintaining an e-Bay store for artists…
Mar 1, 2011
Michaela Johnson, March 2011 CHASS Student of the Month.
Feb 28, 2011
They don’t call it a mountaintop experience for nothing. Eighteen months after standing at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Dr. Craig Brookins can remember what he was thinking as he began his attempt to reach the summit of the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, 19,351 feet above sea level. Brookins, an associate professor of psychology and…
Feb 23, 2011
Katie Starr (International Studies and French, ’11), is speaking today (Feb. 23) at the 55th annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. Last Fall, Starr was one of four students to receive a fellowship from the nonprofit organization, WomenNC, to attend the UN conference. This is the second year…
Jan 1, 2011
Jane Kohan, January 2011 CHASS Student of the Month.
Nov 17, 2010
CHASS alum Greg Volk has made a career out of coming up with great questions. He has also won Emmy awards for his question-writing prowess on the hit television game show "Cash Cab." Volk's advice to those who want to write for television or movies: write every chance you get.
Nov 15, 2010
Running for public office is not for the faint of heart of any age. But what if you’re 21 years old, and a full-time, dean’s-list student like Jenna Wadsworth? The NC State junior is a newly elected district supervisor for the Wake County Soil and Water Conservation District. Wadsworth, a political science/women’s and gender…
Nov 4, 2010
Barbara Bennett never imagined that she’d fall asleep to the sound of roaring lions. Or that she’d master the art of diapering a baby baboon. Or land a book deal with National Geographic. But a stint volunteering at a wildlife refuge in Namibia proved a turning point that set the literature professor on a path of…
Aug 31, 2010
Anita Watkins (Political Science and Spanish, ’94) always envisioned herself at law school after graduating. An internship helped her realize she had a special interest in public policy. Watkins, who now serves as the Vice President for Government Affairs for the University of North Carolina system, credits study within the humanities as a unique and essential part of education.
