NEWS ARCHIVE

Dr. John van Aalst leads a team from the UNC Department of Surgery to help children in the West Bank.  Read more.

Center director Carl Ernst has received a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship, in addition to being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more.

Associate center director Cangüzel Zülfikar and her daughter were featured in Endeavors magazine in an article about researching the 1980 coup in Turkey. Read the article.

The contract between the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi and The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health has been expanded to include a broader range of assessments of health risks due to environmental factors in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Read more.

In his new book, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy (Harvard UP, 2008), Sociology professor Charles Kurzman explores the pre-World War I democratic revolutions of Russia, Iran, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Mexico, and China. Read more.

Drs. Aziz and Gwen Sancar, two professors at UNC-CH, have established a Turkish House (Turk Evi) in Chapel Hill as a Turkish cultural center and short term residence for Turkish visiting scholars. Read more.

UNC faculty members Sarah Shields and Banu Gökariksel, with support from the Mellon Foundation, will lead a 2009-10 Sawyer Seminar on "Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies: Historical Coexistence and Contemporary Struggles." Read more.

A delegation of supporters from Turkey helped launch a fundraising effort for an endowed faculty chair in Islamic studies at a Feb. 12 kick-off event on campus. Read more.

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