The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s winter Commencement is Sunday (Dec. 18) at 2 p.m. in the Dean E. Smith Center. Following are human interest story ideas connected to the ceremony, with contact information for each. Local angles are in bold.
Morgan Abbott of Raleigh, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a John H. Barnhill Trailblazer Award from the North Carolina Campus Compact.
Jennifer Kosmin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a 2011-2012 Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to fund dissertation research in Italy.
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored college honorary society, has inducted 138 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students as new members.