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Campus and Community
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has appointed a new class of alumni and friends to serve on the UNC Board of Visitors, one of the most active volunteer groups at the University. The new members begin their terms July 1. |
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Campus and Community
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Monday, June 17, 2013 |
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct an emergency drill this Wednesday (June 19) between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Davis Library on the UNC campus. |
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Arts
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Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
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Ackland Art Museum now can be seen in a new light. |
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Health and Medicine
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013 |
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Through a new partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, the early childhood education department at Vance-Granville Community College is offering a cutting-edge program for the next generation of teachers. |
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Arts
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013 |
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A cast of young student actors will perform Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” July 17-21 at the Center for Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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CAROLINA IN THE NEWS
With exposure to babies, rodent dads’ brains, like moms’, become wired for nurture
The Washington Post ...Sue Carter, a behavioral neurobiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has spent her career studying prairie voles: “Sometimes they midwife the birth. They grab the baby and start licking it before it’s even out of the membrane it’s born in.” Carter’s studies, like Lambert’s, have found that virgin male prairie voles, when exposed to pups, experience a surge of the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, the so-called “love” hormones that encourage social bonding, much as mothers do.
