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Martina Ballen

Paying the bills is only part of what Martina Ballen does

For 2018 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award winner Martina Ballen being in this elite group is a special honor.

News and Updates

- UNC School of Law receives a $1.53 million gift for new entrepreneurship program
  The program will provide rigorous, hands-on training for the next generation of public-spirited lawyers while also filling gaps in North Carolina’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.
- Graduate student receives Boren Fellowship
  Elizabeth Christenson, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in the environmental sciences and engineering department, will study Arabic in Amman, Jordan, during the 2018-2019 academic year.
- UNC-Chapel Hill researchers ask Americans: “What does God look like?”
- UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor honored with entrepreneurship award
- Celebrating 10 years of the UNC Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop
  During the two-and-a-half day workshop, faculty learn skills that they can apply to ideas they’re working on today or tomorrow.
- Two Carolina graduates selected as Pickering Fellows
- New members chosen for UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Visitors

In Pictures

College World Series sendoff

Dozens of Carolina baseball fans gathered outside Boshamer Stadium on June 13 to send the baseball team off to the College World Series. It's the 11th trip to the College World Series in program history and the seventh under head coach Mike Fox.

Carolina on Social Media

- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Good luck to North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team as they compete in #CWS tonight. #UNC fans around the world are rooting for you! Share below with where you're cheering from ⚾👇
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "Our experience was so different than anything else that life had thrown at us. I think we all identified in one way or another that we needed each other's support to get through it." Discover how a group of widowers found a way to heal together through the UNC Lineberger Compreh...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Feeling hangry? You're not alone. #UNC doctoral candidate Jennifer MacCormack studies how physical states — like hunger — impact our emotions. Watch below to discover ways to avoid your next hanger-induced meltdown ⤵️
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "Gone to Carolina in my mind" isn't just a popular song lyric. For many Tar Heels, it symbolizes that familiar feeling of home that being in Chapel Hill provides students, faculty, staff and alumni. This week, discover why the Town of Chapel Hill and Town of Carrboro, NC are a ho...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  With this $1.53 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, a new entrepreneurial program in the UNC School of Law will provide necessary training for a future generation of public-spirited lawyers and boost entrepreneurship in the state. #UNC
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Let's try this again... 😉⚾ Good luck to the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team as they play Mississippi State University today at 11 a.m. in the College World Series! #GoHeels
- @UNC
  Thanks for giving us so much to cheer for all season long! ⚾️ #GoHeels https://t.co/RYllRtSo43
- @UNC
  The last time @DiamondHeels played Oregon State in the #CWS was EPIC. Who's ready for round two tonight? We're rooting for you, Heels! #GoHeels ⚾️🐏 https://t.co/9sB8FbgViG
- @UNC
  “It is fitting that Martina led the effort to create the Tar Heel Trailblazers because she is a trailblazer in her own right.” Meet @GoHeels' chief financial officer and senior associate athletics director, Martina Ballen, a 2018 Massey Award winner https://t.co/pS4anS59jV
- @UNC
  RT @ChancellorFolt: Great to see colleagues from @KingsCollegeLon and @UNC_Lineberger discussing joint cancer research and clinical collabo…
- @UNC
  Just some of Carolina's priceless gems 😍💙 #WallpaperWednesday https://t.co/902f5sew0e
- @UNC
  Between two and three million people in the U.S. have epilepsy and suffer involuntary seizures that can seriously affect their daily lives. With this special brain implant, @UNC_SOM believes it can provide normalcy for those with epilepsy (via @WRAL) https://t.co/kQHleGRseQ

Events

Jun 12
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Sep 10
Learn more about Waiving or Enrolling in the UNC System Student Health Insurance Plan
Campus Health Services320 Emergency Room DriveChapel HillNC27599 |
All eligible students enrolled in the UNC System Colleges and Universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill, are required to have health insurance!
Jun 18
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Jun 21
N.C. Scholastic Media Institute 2018
Carroll Hall211 South Columbia StreetChapel Hill27599 | $250
The four-day Institute is open to advisers and to students who are rising ninth-graders through 12th-graders. The schedule includes 20 hours of instruction, plus time for a pizza party and awards presentations.
Jun 21
Portrait Lab with Danielle Durchslag
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
| $45
Join us for a special workshop with Artist Danielle Durchslag at the Ackland! Learn about the artist's process of layering cut-paper to create detailed portraits as you create your own portrait based on these techniques. Registration and fee are required.