Bulldog Men’s and Women’s Basketball
UNC Asheville's men's and women's basketball teams will be in action with livestream broadcasts available on ESPN+. For the full schedule and details, visit uncabulldogs.com.
UNC Asheville's men's and women's basketball teams will be in action with livestream broadcasts available on ESPN+. For the full schedule and details, visit uncabulldogs.com.
OLLI - the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville - presents its first virtual Fab Friday of 2021, featuring Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, from 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 15. This online event is free and open to all with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville researchers Evelyn Chiang, Keith Cox and Kevin Riordan will present and discuss via Zoom their recent research on PTSD symptoms in professional firefighters. This online event is free and open to everyone, from 3-4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21.
Fab Fridays at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, are free, virtual and open to non-members as well as members. This session, Avoiding Hip Fractures, features Dr. Adam Kaufman, orthopedic trauma surgeon at Mission Health, and takes place from 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville's annual juried international exhibition of contemporary drawing, will have its 12th renewal online and in paper this year, opening virtually at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22 with a lecture by juror Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, and a special edition of the "Suggested Donation" podcast featuring Peter Van Dyke. These events and online exhibition will be free and open to everyone.
In the first event of UNC Asheville's 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, a panel of community and local government leaders will discuss pathways to Black liberation in the contexts of electoral politics and grassroots/community organizing and activism. This online event is free and open to everyone at 6 p.m. via Zoom.
Dr. Brittney Cooper, associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers, will deliver the keynote talk - online only this year - of UNC Asheville's annual commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. The talk, free and open to everyone, will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26.
The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, begins at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, with a look at the removal of Confederate monuments from special guest Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, and author of In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History. This online event is free and open to everyone.
Whitney Pirtle, assistant professor of sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced, will present a webinar, COVID-19 Death Gaps: Understanding How Race and Class Inequities Shape Pandemic Health Outcomes, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28. This event, part of UNC Asheville's annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, is free and open to everyone. Check back closer to the event date for Zoom access information.
Fab Fridays at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, are free, virtual and open to non-members as well as members. This session, The Crucial Role of Pollinators – Amazing Facts, features Bryan Tompkins, fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Asheville, and takes place from 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.