Recent News
Martha Connell to Speak at UNC Asheville's Craft Campus Lecture Series
March 24, 2009
UNC Asheville's Craft Campus will wrap up its year-long lecture series, "Meet the Maker: Conversations of Meaning with Craftspeople," with a talk by noted gallery director Martha Connell. She will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in UNC Asheville's Owen Conference Center. The event is free and open to the public.
UNC Asheville Honors Alumni with Annual Awards
March 24, 2009
UNC Asheville recently honored four of its most outstanding alumni with the University's annual National Alumni Awards. UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder and UNC Asheville National Alumni Council Chair Neal Rhoades (Class of 1986) presented the awards at a special dinner on campus on March 23, 2009.
$1.5 Million Gift to UNC Asheville to Fund Scholarships, Academic Needs
March 20, 2009
Current and future students at UNC Asheville will be the immediate beneficiaries of a recent $1.5 million gift to the University. The gift is among the largest ever made to UNC Asheville.
At the anonymous donor's request, $1 million will go toward scholarships and $500,000 toward operating support. The University will use $250,000 to purchase equipment needed for the University's new Zeis Science & Multimedia Building that will be dedicated this fall. The remaining $250,000 will be set aside to help create a new endowed faculty chair; those funds will be matched in future by private funds and by the state's Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund, established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1985.
UNC Asheville Hosts Talk on Southern Religions by Renowned Scholar Samuel Hill
March 20, 2009
UNC Asheville's Religious Studies Department and History Department will host a talk on by noted southern religions scholar Samuel Hill at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center. The talk -- "Tell About the South: Why Are They So Religious?" – will examine southern religions and religious history. The event is free and open to the public.
UNC Asheville's Center for Jewish Studies Hosts Concert by Acclaimed Jewish Musician Danny Maseng
March 19, 2009
UNC Asheville's Center for Jewish Studies will host a performance of "The Beauty, the Passion, the Heartbreak: Israel, 60 Years of Song" by celebrated Jewish singer Danny Maseng at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave., Asheville. This one-man show is the seventh annual Deutsch Family Concert. Tickets are $18 general admission and $12 for area students.
UNC Asheville Hosts Talk by Noted Mathematician on Computer Graphics, Fourth Dimension; Thomas Banchoff to Deliver Eighth Annual Parsons Lecture
March 18, 2009
Noted mathematician Thomas Banchoff will delve into the fourth dimension for UNC Asheville's eighth annual Parsons Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium. Banchoff's talk on "From Flatland to Hypergraphics Geometry and Art in the 4th Dimension" will describe the new developments in computer graphics that will open the door to see higher dimensions. A mathematics professor at Brown University, Banchoff's research focuses on four-dimensional geometry and the development of computer graphics. He was the advisor to the recent movie, "Flatland," an animated film inspired by Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel set in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by geometrical shapes. The event is free and open to the public.
UNC Asheville Hosts Eighth Biennial Academic Conference on GLBTQ Studies March 26-28; Filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell and Poet Joan Larkin to Speak
March 18, 2009
UNC Asheville will host its eighth biennial Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (GLBTQ) Studies Conference on campus March 26-28, 2009. This year’s conference, "Queer Art/Queer Action (Politics of Possibility)," will focus on the interrelationships between artistic expression, political activism and academic inquiry.
The national academic conference will offer panels, workshops and papers by some 50 faculty and students from a host of universities, including University of California-Davis, University of Cincinnati, San Francisco State University, Indiana University-Bloomington, George Mason University, Georgia State University, University of Bristol (England), University of Alberta (Canada), University of South Australia, Tennessee State University, and UNC-Wilmington.
UNC Asheville Programs Team Up to Host Conference with Local Non-Profit Agencies; Groups to Examine Challenges and Perspectives of Women's and Related Issues
March 13, 2009
The UNC Asheville Women's Studies Program and the Key Center for Service Learning have teamed up to host a conference with local non-profit agencies to examine the efforts, challenges and perspectives of women's issues and related issues in our community. The conference will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 20, in UNC Asheville's Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Following a welcoming address by Alice Weldon, UNC Asheville Women's Studies Program Co-Chair, three break-out sessions will be offered. The morning session will focus on "Creating Paths Out of Violence and Crime." After lunch, participants will explore "Building the Future with and for Children." The final session will take a look at "Sowing Seeds of Change." A reception will conclude the program.
UNC Asheville Project Explores Western North Carolina's Farmland Values; Study Results to be Presented in Madison, Haywood, Buncombe and Henderson Counties
March 11, 2009
Ask area residents and visitors their opinions on the value of Western North Carolina farmland and you'll get plenty of answers. Top three greatest benefits? Locally produced food, scenic beauty, and jobs for farmers. Greatest concern? Development of farmland for non-farm use. Would they pay to preserve farmland? Yes. How much? Between $184 and $195 a year.
Renowned Jazz Pianist Vijay Iyer to Play Free Memorial Concert at UNC Asheville
March 11, 2009
World-class composer and jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, voted the #1 Rising Star Jazz Artist and #1 Rising Star Composer in the Downbeat Magazine International Critics' Poll for both 2006 and 2007, will play a free concert on Saturday, April 4 in honor of Dan Lucas, a UNC Asheville alumnus who died a year ago while earning an advanced degree at the University of California at Berkeley. Lucas, a first-year candidate for a doctorate in Chemistry, was also a talented musician and jazz enthusiast. The performance is made possible by the Dan Lucas Memorial Fund, an endowment of the Western North Carolina Community Foundation. The Community Foundation's mission is to develop and distribute charitable funds across eighteen counties in the mountain region. This April's concert is the first in a planned annual series.
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