Sir Christopher Meyer didn’t always know he would study diplomacy. While Meyer was a student at the University of Cambridge, a career adviser once suggested he pursue a career in the “fruit and vegetable industry.”“I could be sitting in a grand house in Sicily looking over my balcony at orange groves and vineyards,” he said.
Number of students studying abroad:2008-09: 1,2782007-08: 1,3732006-07: 1,3472005-06: 1,2912004-05: 1,207International students:Fall 2007: 1,252 (4 percent)Fall 2006: 1,244 (4.5 percent)Fall 2005: 1,289 (4.7 percent)Fall 2004: 1,263 (4.7 percent)
UNC students will soon see evenings on campus in a whole new light — LED light, that is.University administrators plan to replace old incandescent lights with energy-efficient LED bulbs, or light-emitting diodes, which will decrease campus energy use and promote sustainability, campus officials said.
The Roosevelt Institute’s new arts and cultural policy center hosted its first guest speaker, rapper Chuck D, Monday night.The University’s chapter of the student think tank serves in a variety of roles as a policy research advocacy group.Now, as the first chapter to incorporate an arts and cultural policy center, it serves yet another role — bringing public policy to life through art.
Two years ago, UNC administrators feared that an aging faculty would force the University to replace five out of every eight professors due to a wave of retirement — a total of almost 2,000 hires.But this academic year, driven by a sour of economy, only about half as many faculty as usual will be retiring, a drastic departure from the trend.“There are less faculty that have retired this year, for obvious reasons,” said Ron Strauss, executive associate provost.
A man called “Little Princess” addressed a group of students, businesspeople and former convicts Monday at the Kenan-Flagler Business School.“Little Princess,” an ex-convict whose real name is Jason Wang, was visiting UNC with Catherine Rohr, the founder and CEO of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program.The program, which began in 2004, takes convicted prisoners who are at least three years from their release date and teaches them to create competitive business plans, making them more likely to become permanent additions to the workforce once they are released.
Jeweler William Travis Kukovich never watched the Disney Channel.But now one of the channel’s most popular teen sensations — Miley Cyrus — is a client.Kukovich, who is the owner of William Travis Jewelry, has owned his University Square store for five years. Three years ago, he opened a second location in a Costa Rican resort, FlorBlanca.Celebrities visiting the resort noticed his designs, and Kukovich was asked to make jewelry for “Main Street,” an upcoming movie starring Orlando Bloom and Colin Firth, partially filmed in Durham.
A group of students and national organizers united Wednesday in front of South Building to push UNC toward a nationwide effort to rid college campuses of coal.The focus of the rally was the UNC Cogeneration Facility, a power plant a half-mile off campus that burns coal and natural gas.A line of five students drew little attention with their protest but delivered a packet of information to the chancellor’s office in hopes of changing University policy.
