UNC Asheville Associate Professor of History Sarah Judson will present at Zoom webinar, Locating Grassroots Democracy: The Asheville Tenants Rent Strike of 1968-69, from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1. This webinar is free and open to everyone.
The next online event in UNC Asheville's Fall 2020 Chemistry & Biochemistry webinar series will be "Polymeric Materials and Catalysis," presented by Brian K. Long, associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This webinar is free and open to everyone, beginning at 11:45 a.m.
UNC Asheville’s student Xtet, directed by Justin Ray, will perform live at noon on Thursday, Oct. 1 at Reed Plaza on the campus. The show will be livestreamed on the Department of Music Facebook page – in-person attendance is free, but limited to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with limited numbers and physical distancing to conform with COVID-19 safety protocols.
UNC Asheville's Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7 with readings by Luke Hankins and Sebastian Matthews. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville's Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville's Departments of Environmental Studies and Biology present the next in their series of webinars, "Salmonella outbreaks in poultry: from the backyard flock to the processing plant," by Andrea Etter, assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. The webinar, free and open to everyone, takes place at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, via Zoom.
UNC Asheville will continue its fall 2020 series of a free webinars on economics with a talk at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, by Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at Czech commercial bank CSOB and author of Economics of Good and Evil: the Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom.
UNC Asheville’s student Horace Silver Ensemble, directed by Zack Page, will perform live at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8 at Reed Plaza on the campus. The show will be livestreamed on the Department of Music Facebook page – in-person attendance is free, but limited to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with limited numbers and physical distancing to conform with COVID-19 safety protocols.
In this online talk at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, bestselling novelist Wiley Cash will discuss two questions he always asks when writing a novel. First, "what is this?" Second, "what do I call it?" He also will discuss and read from his forthcoming novel. Pre-registration is required.
John Grisham’s new novel, A Time For Mercy, the follow-up to his beloved novel A Time to Kill, launches nationally on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Grisham will kick off his online book tour with a noon Zoom conversation with another best-selling novelist, Wiley Cash.
Asa Eger, associate professor of early Islamic history at UNC Greensboro will discuss the physical and ideological aspects of the early interactions between Christianity and Islam, to add perspective to contemporary events, in this free webinar at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville's Department of Education presents an online platform for meaningful conversations about the teaching profession from our teaching alumni. This conversation, from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, will be lead by current teachers to focus on future teachers.
William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr., co-author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, will be featured in this concluding webinar in the fall 2020 series from UNC Asheville's Department of Economics. This online event takes place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, and is free and open to all. Pre-registration is required.
Moon Duchin, the mathematician called upon by Pennsylvania’s governor to aid in drawing up nonpartisan Congressional district maps, will share how she uses mathematical modelling to assess the fairness of district lines when she delivers UNC Asheville’s 2020 Parsons Lecture via Zoom, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15.
UNC Asheville’s seventh annual African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia Conference will take place online this year, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16. The conference is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
TheatreUNCA will bring Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy Antigone to life as a radio drama podcast with an online debut set for 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18 on the UNC Asheville Department of Drama’s Vimeo channel. Visit drama.unca.edu/engage/theatreunca to register for this free event and receive a password-protected link to listen to the show between Oct 18 and 25.
UNC Asheville will host a virtual Climate Teach-In from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, with faculty and community experts addressing interdisciplinary issues related to climate science, climate impacts and adaptations, and climate solutions. The virtual program is free and open to all.
UNC Asheville’s Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20 with a reading by Xhenet Aliu. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
UPDATED Oct. 23, 2020: No blood donations can be accepted today (Friday) due to Red Cross staffing issues.
This webinar, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, is free and open to everyone. Areas of focus in the webinar will be African American women and the Suffrage Movement, discursive politics within Women's Suffrage Movements, and women's suffrage in the South.
UNC Asheville has announced the inaugural Turning of the Maples Virtual 5K. Complete your 3.1 mile run/walk the weekend of October 23-25, 2020, to take in the colorful fall leaves wherever you are. Registration is now open at unca.edu/Virtual5K and the $10 fee includes an exclusive Turning of the Maples 5K beanie hat, a Turning of the Maples 5K sticker, and a downloadable race bib to print off at home.
Meghan McGreal, a 2015 UNC Asheville graduate student, now part of the Goodpaster Group at the Chemical Theory Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss electronic structure theories and graduate school experiences at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23 in a webinar presented by UNC Asheville's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This webinar is free and open to everyone.
Discovery Day is the UNC Asheville Open House that gives students and families a chance to see what makes the UNC Asheville experience unique. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s Discovery Day events will be held virtually.
UNC Asheville’s Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27 with a reading by Melissa Range. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
Benjamin L. Schmitt of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will present a free webinar, Moving Science from a ‘Nice-to-Have’ to a ‘Must-Have’ in U.S. Foreign Policy: Stories from a Physicist on the Front Lines of Transatlantic Security Policy, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville's Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies are hosting a webinar presented by Jim Chapman, senior geologist for oil and gas regulation at N.C. Geological Survey, part of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
This online event is free and open to everyone, beginning at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22.
Pete Kekenes-Huskey, associate professor of cell and molecular physiology at Loyola University Chicago, and a 2001 UNC Asheville graduate, will discuss computational modeling of Ca2+-binding proteins, at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30.