Public Service
Public Service
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Attend Peace Corps info session Feb. 22
Carolina ranks consistently among the top 10 universities providing volunteers to the Peace Corps.
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Challah for Hunger bakes its way to success
Sara Desberg,foreground, and Shayna Bernstein bake their Challah for Hunger loaves at the Hillel House.
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UNC senior is People's choice
People magazine just named Gabriel Whaley of Charlotte, a UNC senior majoring in philosophy, its Readers’ Choice Hero of 2011.
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Tops in teaching
UNC ranks fourth among colleges and universities contributing the most seniors to Teach For America, according to the group's fourth annual ranking of schools.
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UNC is Habitat for Humanity's campus chapter of the year
UNC's Build a Block project, a partnership to build 10 homes for 10 employee families, earned a national award.
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Grad student on a mission to improve health in Africa
On her missions in Africa, Suzannah Johnston talked to women and children about health issues like dehydration.
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Making life easier, with the right tools
Professor Richard Goldberg's classes engineer devices to help people with disabilities live more independently.
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Midwifery at the Mexican border
Kimmie Garner juggled research and maternity care during a summer internship at Maternidad La Luz near El Paso, Texas.
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UNC expands transfer program to Central Carolina
Central Carolina, (Lee County campus shown), is the sixth school to join UNC's C-STEP program.
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Raising them right
Teens at B’nai Shalom Day School and Al-Iman School learned about each other's cultures before meeting at a UNC-Duke Consortium for Middle East Studies workshop.
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Beating the odds: C-STEP helps student to degree, law school
Roy Dawson holds his acceptance letter to the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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STAR leads N.C. community to economic recovery
Jon Parise was one of the business students who helped a Spruce Pine group turn crafts into a sustainable business.
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For Carolina nurse, big ideas bring big results
Debra J. Barksdale volunteers several times a month at the Robert Nixon Clinics for the Homeless in Chapel Hill.
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Students' jewelry raises funds for Kenyan children
Morgan Abbott's Carolina for Amani helps children through sales of jewelry made from Kenyan beads.
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ABAN tackles two epidemics
Through the ABAN project in Ghana, Callie Brauel (right) has helped people like Elizabeth turn plastic litter into stylish wallets.
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1,000 days, 2 million books read, 150 countries
Gary Bishop and Karen Erickson created Tar Heel Reader to help readers with disabilities.
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Jessica Breland and her Comeback Kids
Jessica Breland (far right), who rebounded from lymphoma to play college basketball again, is helping children with cancer through her Comeback Kids Fund.
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Strong ties help UNC and Malawi fight disease
Each pushpin on this map indicates a place where UNC is at work in Malawi. UNC researchers began working in Malawi more than 20 years ago.
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The arcH Media Project may help change disaster response
The arcH Media Project team hopes to use lessons from Haiti to prepare for future disasters.
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N.C. Botanical Garden LEEDs the way
The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center has earned the highest level awarded for green buildings.
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