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Two doctoral candidates at UNC, Aurélie Brunie and Danny de Vries, were recently named PERISHIP Fellows in Hazards, Risk and Disasters.

The Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) and the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder awarded the fellowships.

Brunie and de Vries join eight other scholars as the first-ever PERISHIP fellows in this field. The 10 doctoral students each will receive a grant of up to $10,000 to support their work on natural and human-made hazards, risks and disasters.

The fellowship program is supported with National Science Foundation funding and managed by PERI and the Natural Hazards Center.

Brunie, a doctoral candidate in UNC’s city and regional planning department, is focusing on "Natural Disasters, Poverty and Sustainable Development" for her dissertation. De Vries, a doctoral candidate in the anthropology department, is focusing on "The Influence of Culture Models in Mitigation and Decision Making Among Property Owners in Five Historical U.S. Floodplain Communities."

Both departments are within UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.

The PERISHIP program is intended to foster the advancement of knowledge in the interdisciplinary hazards field. Through the financial support of the program, the fellows can complete their work in the hazards field and contribute new understanding to how societies can better deal with hazards, risk and disasters.

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Laura M. Puaca, a doctoral candidate in UNC’s history department, received one of seven Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies.

The fellowship, funded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, provides $3,000 to doctoral candidates nationwide in their final year of dissertation research. Recipients may use the funds for research-related travel, data work and supplies.

Puaca is writing her dissertation on "A New National Defense: Feminism, Militarism and the Schooling of American Women, 1940-1965."

The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies was the first program nationwide to support doctoral work in women’s studies and remains the only national program of its kind. Since it began in 1974, the program has supported more than 450 doctorates in fields focusing on topics concerning women.

Other recipients came from Ohio State University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, the New School University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Early Chinese ceramics exhibition
extends Ackland run to May 1

Selections of ancient Chinese ceramics from an exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University from the collection of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman will be extended at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum until May 1.

The 32 examples of Chinese ceramics and sculpture, selected from the exhibition “Heavenly Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection,” span more than 2000 years of Chinese history from the Zhou Dynasty (10th-9th century BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (late 15th-early 16th century CE) and show a rich diversity of forms, styles and ceramic techniques.

The Ackland is on the northside of campus, on South Columbia Street near Franklin Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. For more information, call 919-843-1611 (recorded information), 919-966-5736 (museum office), 919-962-0837 (TTY) or visit the Web site, www.ackland.org. For program details, call 919-843-3676.

Photo URL: http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/ackland/shatzman.jpg

Caption: Zhejiang province, Western Jin period (265-316): Funerary Jar, glazed stoneware, Yue Ware, Shatzman Collection.

Ackland contact: Maria Gloeggler, 919-843-3675, maria_gloeggler@unc.edu

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